1. Unemployment problem in
Bangladesh
Tamanna Tabassum Moulee
ID- 00000000000
Sec-BBA (4D)
NUB

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Types of Unemployment
• Causes of unemployment
• Unemployment situation
in Bangladesh
• Unemployment rate
• Effect of unemployment
problem
• Solusion
• conclution

3. Introduction
Bangladesh is a small country with growing
problems. Among all problems, unemployment
problem is a great one. Unemployment means the
state of being without any work both for the
educated and the uneducated for earning one’s
livehood. The problem has spread its evil clutch all
over the country. It is going from bad to worse.
Thousand of people in our country are jobless now.
All are getting concerned with this problems.

4. Types of unemployment
There are a few types of unemployment:
1. Involuntary (most common)
2. Voluntary
3. Transient

5. Types of unemployment
 Involuntary is where someone can not gain employment
even though they are trying. Here a few:
 Lack of skills
 Lack of available jobs
 Lack of entrepreneurship
 Voluntary Unemployment is someone chooses not to
work.
 The benefit system in place is too generous
 Too wealthy to need to work
 Criminal behaviour and also criminal record
 Transient, means that they are currently between jobs
and will have a month or two off between one job and the
next.

6. Causes of unemployment
Population growth
Industrial
backwardness
lack of investment.
Limited cultivable
land
Narrow productive
work
Lack of socialization
Defective education
system
Lack of skills

7. Causes of unemployment
Mental/Physical Disabilities
Laziness
Attitude of our educated Youngman
Mental stress
Lack of self esteem
Poor personality
Drug addiction
Kidnapping, Snatching, traffic jam and
various types of social crime
Abuse of political power

8. Unemployment situation in
Bangladesh
According to a study of the International Labor
Organization (ILO), the rate of growth of unemployment
in Bangladesh currently is 3.7 per cent. The ILO figures
also show Bangladesh in the twelfth position among the
top twenty countries in the world where unemployment is
rising.
The number of the unemployed in Bangladesh now is
estimated at 30 million. The way the rate of
unemployment is increasing, it is feared that at this rate
unemployment would soar to some 60 million by 2015.
According to another estimate, every year some 2.7
million young persons are becoming eligible for jobs
whereas only about 0.7 million of them are getting
employment.

9. Unemployment rate
about 40% of the population is underemployed;
many participants in the labor force
country 1996 2001 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Bangladesh 35.2 35 40 40 40 2.5 2.5 5.1 4.8
work only a few hours a week, at low wages
Source: CIA World Fact book

10. Effect of unemployment problem
Unemployment is a great social evil. It
makes a man idle. There is a proverb, that
an idle brain is the workshop of a devil. An
idle person always indulges in mischief.
So unemployment leads people to various
unsocial activities which hamper the
normal course of social life. Besides, lack
of opportunities for employment makes
people frustrated to take education.

11. Solution of unemployment
problem
To solve the problem some measures may
be taken. The first necessary thing for the
solution of the problem is that a large
number of mills, factories and firms should
be set up throughout the country so that
the unemployed can work there.
Vocational training should be introduced
and students should have some training in
it. Our students and youths should be
encouraged to respect manual labour and
choose an independent career. The
government should be honest and sincere
in their plans and policies. Above all, the
growth of population should be kept within
reasonable limit.

12. Conclution
 Unfortunately, there is no one conclusion to
unemployment. Chances are that countries will
always have a rate of unemployment - even in
prosperous times such as after the Second World
War, there was still a rate of unemployment,
although it was very low. Some economic
theories such as Keynesianism suggest that the
government of a country should hold employment
as its top priority. Other theories such as
Monetarism suggest that, by focusing
government attention on strict controls on the
amount of money circulating within a country's
economy, unemployment will also come down.

13. Any Question?