← → 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

It was the last year of the rule of BNP led by Khaleda Zia and also the first year of the regime of the fourth caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed.

Note: For the year 2006 average official exchange rate for BDT was 68.93 per US$.

Yunus was the first Bangladeshi to ever get a Nobel Prize.

After receiving the news of the important award, Yunus announced that he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million (equivalent to $2.12 million in 2023) award money to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor; while the rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh.