Bangladesh Garment Industry Statistics
Bangladesh’s garment sector expanded exports and safety progress while scaling wages, finance, and wastewater capacity.
Bangladesh’s garment industry connects millions of workers to global buyers, shaped by export demand, labor rules, and workplace safety systems. On this page, you’ll find how capacity and worker welfare efforts move alongside performance—covering export growth, wage and training initiatives, and progress after Rana Plaza. It also looks at environmental infrastructure, including a BEXIMCO central effluent treatment plant that handles 40,000 cubic meters daily, plus sustainability financing.
Written byAlexander EserCo-Founder, Rawshot.ai
Executive Summary
Key Takeaways
Bangladesh’s garment sector expanded exports and safety progress while scaling wages, finance, and wastewater capacity.
There were 2,441 woven and knit member factories under BGMEA and BKMEA combined in FY2022-23
Export growth of the textile and apparel sector was 3.67% in July-January FY2023-24
The financing package included $150 million for the Bangladesh Environmental Sustainability and Transformation Project
More than 90% of safety remediation identified after Rana Plaza has been completed
The Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund had secured $21.5 million by April 2015
The Accord’s complaint mechanism handled more than 1,400 complaints
Average weekly hours worked by male production workers in wearing apparel were 59.31 hours in 2022
The announced wage increase from Tk 8,000 to Tk 12,500 was 56.25%
Grade-6 garment workers’ gross monthly wage was fixed at Tk 12,794 in 2023
Bangladesh exported $23.75 billion of apparel to the European Union in FY2022-23
Bangladesh was the world’s second-largest clothing exporter with a 7.9% global market share in 2023
1,166.4 million pairs of gloves exported in 2018 (export quantity, pairs)
1,274.4 million pairs of gloves exported in 2019 (export quantity, pairs)
1,421.3 million pairs of gloves exported in 2020 (export quantity, pairs)
Section 01
Industry Structure And Investment
There were 2,441 woven and knit member factories under BGMEA and BKMEA combined in FY2022-23 [1]
Export growth of the textile and apparel sector was 3.67% in July-January FY2023-24 [2]
The financing package included $150 million for the Bangladesh Environmental Sustainability and Transformation Project [3]
The central effluent treatment plant at the BEXIMCO industrial park treats 40,000 cubic meters of wastewater daily [4]
Bangladesh has 9 of the world’s top 10 LEED platinum-rated garment factories [5]
Section 02
Safety And Compliance
More than 90% of safety remediation identified after Rana Plaza has been completed [6]
The Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund had secured $21.5 million by April 2015 [7]
The Accord’s complaint mechanism handled more than 1,400 complaints [8]
More than 1.5 million workers received basic fire safety training through the Alliance [9]
The Remediation Coordination Cell took over oversight of 1,549 national factories from the Accord and Alliance transition process [10]
The RSC has facilitated the remediation of more than 91% of identified safety issues [11]
Better Work Bangladesh has been operating since 2014 [12]
Section 03
Employment And Workforce
Section 04
Historical Trends
Bangladesh exported $23.75 billion of apparel to the European Union in FY2022-23 [16]
Section 05
Exports And Trade
Bangladesh was the world’s second-largest clothing exporter with a 7.9% global market share in 2023 [17]
Section 06
Trends
1,166.4 million pairs of gloves exported in 2018 (export quantity, pairs) [18]
1,274.4 million pairs of gloves exported in 2019 (export quantity, pairs) [19]
1,421.3 million pairs of gloves exported in 2020 (export quantity, pairs) [20]
1,442.8 million pairs of gloves exported in 2021 (export quantity, pairs) [21]
1,596.7 million pairs of gloves exported in 2022 (export quantity, pairs) [22]
1,663.3 million pairs of gloves exported in 2023 (export quantity, pairs) [23]
References
Footnotes
- 1bgmea.com.bd×3
- 2mof.portal.gov.bd
- 3worldbank.org×2
- 4ifc.org
- 7ilo.org×2
- 8bangladeshaccord.org
- 9apparelresources.com
- 11rsc-bd.org
- 12betterwork.org
- 13bbs.gov.bd
- 14thedailystar.net
- 15tbsnews.net
- 17wto.org
- 18comtradeplus.un.org×6
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