More than 1,100 Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs and professionals make their mark in the UAE

More and more Bangladeshi women are now starting businesses in the UAE while other businesswomen from Bangladesh are expanding their businesses in the UAE due to easy connectivity with key international markets

Dubai, UAE; March 9, 2024

News Highlights:

1. Women make up approximately 49.42 percent of Bangladesh’s population, and 71.18 percent of them are literate. Nonetheless, only 7.2 percent of the nation’s businesses are headed by women;
2. According to a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), women are involved in over 40 percent of SMEs in Bangladesh;
3. Women-owned SMEs in Bangladesh was 2.8 million, which is around 24.6 percent of the total number of SMEs in the country;
4. Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) own and manage more than 100,000 of the 750,000 active businesses in the UAE;
5. More than 100 self-made Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs and 1,000 women professionals are currently contributing to the UAE economy.

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