Their data on those parameters are not taken seriously by UNICEF, WB. UNDP uses their own estimates while calculating BD's HDI. BD people come to Kolkata for better treatment; don't read too much into their official figures. Would you trust me if I say that they underestimate their population to artificially inflate per capita parameters? The World Bank seems to think so.
Here, give this a read (shared by
@gslv markIII )
The experts considered the GDP growth a tall tale, especially because of the 'magic' in the first eight and half months of the fiscal year that apparently upturned all the negative effects on an economy that had almost come to a halt in the last three and half months.
en.prothomalo.com
@Chandragupt Maurya nibba
From the article,
As it is, the World Bank and IMF (International Monetary Fund) indirectly accuses all governments of Bangladesh of data doctoring. For long, World Bank, IMF and many other UN organisations do not consider the government-announced GDP growth as reliable. It is general knowledge that local and foreign institutions think other ‘vital statistics’ the BBS publishes are also increased and decreased at will. This doubt is not without basis. There are several instances of such manipulations:
1. The government shows the total population of Bangladesh as less than actual. As a result, the population growth rate has been decreased to 1.3 per cent. According to UNFPA, the rate is 1.42 per cent.
2. The per capita GDP could be increased artificially if the total nominal GDP is deducted by the ‘smaller number of population’. Recently, the government has claimed that per capita income of Bangladesh has risen from $1909 to $2064 on 30 June 2020.
3. The rate of inflation is shown less so that the real per capita GDP could be increased while calculating real GDP from the nominal GDP.
4. The government inflates the literacy rate, which the UNDP does not think credible enough for the Human Development Index.