The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecasted that Bangladesh's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth will be 3.8% this year.

This projection was released in the IMF's World Economic Outlook, October 2025, published on Tuesday night (October 14).

The report was unveiled on the second day of the annual joint meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington, DC. The IMF typically provides GDP growth forecasts based on the calendar year.

Earlier, in April, the IMF's outlook had projected the same growth rate of 3.8% for Bangladesh this year.

According to the World Economic Outlook, growth is expected to rise to 4.9% in 2026. Meanwhile, the IMF anticipates average overall inflation to be 10% this year.

On October 7, another donor agency, the World Bank, also forecasted Bangladesh's GDP growth. It projected that Bangladesh's GDP growth could reach 4.8% in the current 2025-26 fiscal year.

On September 29, yet another donor agency, the ADB, forecasted 5% GDP growth for the current fiscal year. These two institutions base their GDP forecasts on the fiscal year. The government has set a target of 5.5% growth for the current fiscal year. According to the IMF's new forecast, global average GDP growth will be 3.2%.

The World Bank-IMF annual meetings began on October 13 and will continue until October 18. A Bangladeshi delegation, led by Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, is participating in these joint meetings.

Sources in the Finance Ministry have indicated that the Bangladeshi delegation will attend the plenary sessions and hold side meetings with officials from donor agencies such as the IMF, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank (ADB). Discussions in these meetings will cover ongoing loan programs, financial sector reforms, and repatriating laundered money.