As of 2017, an "educated guess made by ... government officials" of Bangladesh was that there were 400,000 Bangladeshis living in Italy.
[1] In 2019, the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies put the number of Bangladeshis regularly residing in Italy at 145,707.
[5] From 2012, over 20,000 Italian Bangladeshis migrated to the United Kingdom with the advent of Italy's manufacturing decline.
59% of the Bangladeshi population (15 years and older) is employed – a figure two percentage points higher than that recorded for the non-EU nationals in the country.
The Bangladeshi community in Italy has an unemployment rate of 11%, slightly lower than the whole of non-EU nationals.