In one year, the number of millionaires has increased by 6,006

In one year, the number of millionaires has increased by 6,006

As the global epidemic of coronavirus recedes, the world economy begins to recover. The country’s economy is also turning around. Export orders of the garment sector, the main source of export income of the country, are again in the previous position. The number of millionaires is increasing in the country with the economic progress. Within a year, the number of millionaire depositors in the country has increased to 6,006. This information has been found in the review of the updated report of the Central Bank.

According to the central bank, at the end of December 2020, there were 93,690 accounts with more than one crore rupees in the country’s commercial banks. At the end of December 2021, this number has increased to one lakh one thousand 98. As such, the number of millionaire account holders has increased to 6,006 in one year.

At the time of the Corona epidemic, in March 2020, the number of accounts in the country’s commercial banks with more than one crore rupees in deposits was 72,625. The number of millionaire account holders increased to more than one lakh in September of the same year due to the epidemic. At the end of December 2021, that number stood at one lakh one thousand 98. In just 21 months of the Corona epidemic, the number of millionaire accounts has increased to 19,351.

According to the data of Bangladesh Bank, 12 crore 46 lakh 98 thousand 934 bank accounts were opened in the banks till December 2021. As such, the amount of money deposited is 15 lakh 12 thousand 462 crore taka. Of this, the amount deposited is only 6 crore 53 thousand 575 crore rupees. At the end of December 2020, the total deposit balance was 13 lakh 79 thousand 150 crore. At the end of the same period, the amount deposited in the crorepati bank accounts was 5 lakh 95 thousand 26 crore taka.

According to the report, the number of depositors from Tk 1 crore to Tk 5 crore has increased to 69,073, where the deposit amount is Tk 1,08,443 crore. There are 16 thousand 9 accounts between five crore and 20 crore taka, where the deposit amount is one lakh 57 thousand 695 crore taka. The total number of account holders above Tk 20 crore to 50 crore is 5,064, while the deposit amount is Tk 3,26,719 crore.

According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), there were five millionaires in the country after independence in 1972. In 1975 it increased to 47 people. At the end of 1970, the number of millionaire account holders was 96, in 1990 it was 943, in 1996 it was 2,594, in 2001 it was 5,162, in 2006 it was 6,006 and in 2006 it was 19,173. At the end of December 2020, it increased to 93,690.

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