Bangladeshi taka

Bangladeshi taka

টাকা (Bengali)
Sign Taka banknotes
ISO 4217
Code	BDT (numeric: 050)
Subunit	0.01
Unit
Symbol	৳‎
Denominations
Subunit
1⁄100	Poisha (defunct)
Symbol
Poisha	p
Banknotes
Freq. used	৳5, ৳10, ৳20, ৳50, ৳100, ৳200, ৳500 and ৳1000
Rarely used	৳1 and ৳2
Coins
Freq. used	৳1, ৳2, ৳5
Demographics
Date of introduction	4 March 1972; 52 years ago (1972-03-04)
Replaced	Pakistani rupee
User(s)	Bangladesh
Issuance
Central bank	Bangladesh Bank
Printer	The Security Printing Corporation Bangladesh Ltd.
Website	www.spcbl.org.bd
Mint	The Security Printing Corporation Bangladesh Ltd.
Valuation
Inflation	9.41%
Source	BBS, August 2021[1]

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The Bangladeshi taka (Bengali: টাকা, sign: ৳, code: BDT, short form: Tk) is the currency of Bangladesh. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN.

Issuance of banknotes ৳10 and larger is controlled by Bangladesh Bank, while the ৳2 and ৳5 banknotes are the responsibility of the ministry of finance. The banknotes of Tk. 2 and Tk.5 have mostly been replaced by coins while lower denomination coins (including all poysha coins) up to Tk. 1 have almost gone out of circulation due to inflation. The most commonly used symbol for the taka is "৳" and "Tk", used on receipts while purchasing goods and services. It is divided into 100 poysha, but poysha coins are no longer in circulation. The poysha is still used for accounting purposes (e.g., Tk 123,456.78 for 123,456 taka and 78 poysha).

On 8 May 2024, the central bank placed the taka in a crawling peg to the US dollar, with a rate of 117 takas per US dollar.^[2]