By the end of 2022 Bangladesh had nearly 800,000 unemployed university graduates, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
This unemployment rate was 12% (tertiary), highest among all levels of education, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2022 published on Wednesday.
The unemployment rate among higher educated people was 11.2% in the previous LFS in 2016-17, which shows that joblessness rate among educated youth is growing.
Of the unemployed among graduates, around 19% were female in 2022, said the BBS, which estimated the overall unemployment rate at 3.53% last year.
According to the survey, the unemployment rate was low among persons with low or no education, but the rate of joblessness increased in line with the rise in education level, according to the BBS.
The unemployment rate among people having higher secondary degrees was 8.87% in 2022, and the jobless rate was 2.82% among those who have completed their secondary education.
