Industries

* **Textiles and Garments (RMG):** The backbone of the export economy; Bangladesh is the world's second-largest exporter of ready-made apparel. * **Agriculture and Agro-processing:** Employs roughly 40% of the workforce, producing rice, jute, and increasingly processed food items for export. * **Pharmaceuticals:** A rapidly expanding, largely self-sufficient domestic industry that is actively increasing its footprint in global generic drug exports. * **Shipbuilding and Shipbreaking:** Shipbreaking is a major source of domestic steel, while shipbuilding is a growing export industry building small to medium-sized vessels. * **Information Technology:** An emerging sector with a young, tech-savvy workforce, focusing on software development and IT-enabled services. * **Leather and Leather Goods:** A traditional export industry drawing on the country's extensive livestock resources. * **Remittances/Labor Export:** While not an "industry" in the traditional sense, the deployment of skilled and unskilled labor abroad is vital to foreign exchange reserves.