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SOURCE
World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.
DEFINITION
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers resident in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status, to recipients in their country of origin. Migrants' transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. Data are in current U.S. dollars."
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
United States :
48,308,200,000
2009
American Immigration
# 2
Saudi Arabia :
25,969,470,000
2009
Saudi Immigration
# 3
Switzerland :
19,561,570,000
2009
Swiss Immigration
# 4
Russia :
18,612,780,000
2009
Russian Immigration
# 5
Germany :
15,924,140,000
2009
German Immigration
# 6
Netherlands :
14,212,430,000
2009
Dutch Immigration
# 7
Italy :
12,986,350,000
2009
Italian Immigration
# 8
Spain :
12,646,170,000
2009
Spanish Immigration
# 9
Luxembourg :
10,559,990,000
2009
Luxembourg Immigration
# 10
Kuwait :
9,911,899,000
2009
Kuwaiti Immigration
# 11
Malaysia :
6,528,553,000
2009
Malaysian Immigration
# 12
Lebanon :
5,749,154,000
2009
Lebanese Immigration
# 13
Oman :
5,313,394,000
2009
Omani Immigration
# 14
France :
5,224,006,000
2009
French Immigration
# 15
China :
4,444,438,000
2009
Chinese Immigration
# 16
Norway :
4,174,095,000
2009
Norwegian Immigration
# 17
Belgium :
4,135,802,000
2009
Belgian Immigration
# 18
Japan :
4,068,503,000
2009
Japanese Immigration
# 19
United Kingdom :
3,667,700,000
2009
British Immigration
# 20
Denmark :
3,413,239,000
2009
Danish Immigration
# 21
Austria :
3,376,768,000
2009
Austrian Immigration
# 22
Israel :
3,283,300,000
2009
Israeli Immigration
# 23
Kazakhstan :
3,137,704,000
2009
Kazakhstani Immigration
# 24
Australia :
3,000,000,000
2009
Australian Immigration
# 25
India :
2,892,530,000
2009
Indian Immigration
# 26
Indonesia :
2,701,592,000
2009
Indonesian Immigration
# 27
Czech Republic :
2,562,401,000
2009
Czech Immigration
# 28
Ireland :
1,987,584,000
2009
Irish Immigration
# 29
Greece :
1,842,956,000
2009
Greek Immigration
# 30
Portugal :
1,459,695,000
2009
Portuguese Immigration
# 31
Bahrain :
1,390,957,000
2009
Bahraini Immigration
# 32
Libya :
1,361,000,000
2009
Libyan Immigration
# 33
Hungary :
1,337,820,000
2009
Hungarian Immigration
# 34
Poland :
1,328,000,000
2009
Polish Immigration
# 35
South Africa :
1,158,338,000
2009
South African Immigration
# 36
Brazil :
1,003,043,000
2009
Brazilian Immigration
# 37
New Zealand :
871,155,500
2009
New Zealand Immigration
# 38
Sweden :
787,001,000
2009
Swedish Immigration
# 39
Argentina :
702,222,900
2009
Argentine Immigration
# 40
Azerbaijan :
651,831,000
2009
Azerbaijani Immigration
# 41
Lithuania :
619,673,600
2009
Lithuanian Immigration
# 42
Venezuela :
581,000,000
2009
Venezuelan Immigration
# 43
Jordan :
502,253,500
2009
Jordanian Immigration
# 44
Uganda :
463,292,800
2009
Ugandan Immigration
# 45
Finland :
453,707,700
2009
Finnish Immigration
# 46
Brunei :
444,817,400
2009
Bruneian Immigration
# 47
Sri Lanka :
434,500,000
2009
Sri Lankan Immigration
# 48
Cyprus :
408,956,200
2009
Cypriot Immigration
# 49
Papua New Guinea :
322,632,900
2009
Papua New Guinean Immigration
# 50
Jamaica :
314,111,800
2009
Jamaican Immigration
# 51
Romania :
310,000,000
2009
Romanian Immigration
# 52
Costa Rica :
238,598,200
2009
Costa Rican Immigration
# 53
Panama :
229,400,000
2009
Panamanian Immigration
# 54
Cambodia :
215,156,900
2009
Cambodian Immigration
# 55
Syria :
212,000,000
2009
Syrian Immigration
# 56
Slovenia :
191,453,800
2009
Slovenian Immigration
# 57
Kyrgyzstan :
187,709,600
2009
Kyrgyzstani Immigration
# 58
Gabon :
185,600,000
2009
Gabonese Immigration
# 59
Armenia :
145,154,000
2009
Armenian Immigration
# 60
Senegal :
144,100,000
2009
Senegalese Immigration
# 61
Turkey :
141,000,000
2009
Turkish Immigration
# 62
Haiti :
134,824,000
2009
Haitian Immigration
# 63
Slovakia :
133,845,100
2009
Slovak Immigration
# 64
Tajikistan :
123,627,700
2009
Tajikistani Immigration
# 65
Maldives :
116,032,800
2009
Maldivian Immigration
# 66
Belarus :
112,400,000
2009
Belarusian Immigration
# 67
Netherlands Antilles :
105,882,700
2009
Dutch Antillean Immigration
# 68
Mali :
104,786,600
2009
Malian Immigration
# 69
Moldova :
104,000,000
2009
Moldovan Immigration
# 70
Bolivia :
103,474,300
2009
Bolivian Immigration
# 71
Botswana :
102,211,500
2009
Motswana -Batswana Immigration
# 72
Congo, Republic of the :
102,200,000
2009
Congolese Immigration
# 73
Bulgaria :
101,249,900
2009
Bulgarian Immigration
# 74
Burkina Faso :
99,600,000
2009
Burkinabe Immigration
# 75
Croatia :
99,274,020
2009
Croatian Immigration
# 76
Bahamas, The :
96,320,000
2009
Bahamian Immigration
# 77
Cameroon :
94,363,180
2009
Cameroonian Immigration
# 78
New Caledonia :
92,404,170
2009
New Caledonian Immigration
# 79
Colombia :
92,231,740
2009
Colombian Immigration
# 80
Serbia and Montenegro :
90,908,930
2009
Serbian Immigration
# 81
Benin :
88,300,000
2009
Beninese Immigration
# 82
Peru :
85,417,330
2009
Peruvian Immigration
# 83
Mongolia :
83,443,650
2009
Mongolian Immigration
# 84
Ecuador :
81,280,870
2009
Ecuadorian Immigration
# 85
Tanzania :
80,553,040
2009
Tanzanian Immigration
# 86
Estonia :
80,534,270
2009
Estonian Immigration
# 87
Aruba :
76,743,020
2009
Aruban Immigration
# 88
Guyana :
76,738,000
2009
Guyanese Immigration
# 89
Rwanda :
71,439,830
2009
Rwandan Immigration
# 90
Nigeria :
65,654,800
2009
Nigerian Immigration
# 91
Zambia :
65,620,000
2009
Zambian Immigration
# 92
French Polynesia :
64,326,990
2009
French Polynesian Immigration
# 93
Mozambique :
63,061,180
2009
Mozambican Immigration
# 94
Morocco :
60,958,730
2009
Moroccan Immigration
# 95
Kenya :
60,803,850
2009
Kenyan Immigration
# 96
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
60,801,120
2009
Herzegovinian Immigration
# 97
Philippines :
58,000,000
2009
Philippine Immigration
# 98
Togo :
57,627,730
2009
Togolese Immigration
# 99
Thailand :
53,479,260
1991
Thai Immigration
# 100
Malta :
53,067,340
2009
Maltese Immigration
# 101
Latvia :
45,500,000
2009
Latvian Immigration
# 102
Guinea :
44,870,000
2009
Guinean Immigration
# 103
Barbados :
40,067,840
2009
Barbadian Immigration
# 104
Lesotho :
34,677,650
2009
Basotho Immigration
# 105
Iceland :
33,913,500
2009
Icelandic Immigration
# 106
Burma :
31,700,000
2009
Burmese Immigration
# 107
Georgia :
31,683,590
2009
Georgian Immigration
# 108
Iraq :
31,400,000
2009
Iraqi Immigration
# 109
Dominican Republic :
28,800,000
2009
Dominican Immigration
# 110
Central African Republic :
27,377,290
1994
Central African Immigration
# 111
Ethiopia :
26,549,560
2009
Ethiopian Immigration
# 112
Macedonia, Republic of :
26,302,030
2009
Macedonian Immigration
# 113
Ukraine :
25,000,000
2009
Ukrainian Immigration
# 114
Seychelles :
23,885,400
2009
Seychellois Immigration
# 115
Belize :
22,803,470
2009
Belizean Immigration
# 116
Guatemala :
22,600,000
2009
Guatemalan Immigration
# 117
Laos :
22,370,010
2009
Lao Immigration
# 118
Niger :
22,302,110
2009
Nigerien Immigration
# 119
Fiji :
22,206,930
2009
Fijian Immigration
# 120
Algeria :
22,032,300
1991
Algerian Immigration
# 121
Madagascar :
21,200,000
2009
Malagasy Immigration
# 122
El Salvador :
20,891,500
2009
Salvadoran Immigration
# 123
Côte d'Ivoire :
19,537,060
2009
Ivoirian Immigration
# 124
Guinea-Bissau :
16,750,590
2009
Guinean Immigration
# 125
Namibia :
15,880,380
2009
Namibian Immigration
# 126
Chad :
15,421,340
1994
Chadian Immigration
# 127
Trinidad and Tobago :
14,341,450
1995
Tobagonian Immigration
# 128
Tonga :
13,505,990
2009
Tongan Immigration
# 129
Tunisia :
12,886,260
2009
Tunisian Immigration
# 130
Nepal :
12,328,740
2009
Nepalese Immigration
# 131
Cape Verde :
11,832,880
2009
Cape Verdean Immigration
# 132
Mauritius :
11,673,650
2009
Mauritian Immigration
# 133
Honduras :
11,583,450
2009
Honduran Immigration
# 134
Swaziland :
10,956,180
2009
Swazi Immigration
# 135
Albania :
10,034,210
2009
Albanian Immigration
# 136
Mauritania :
9,619,270
1998
Mauritanian Immigration
# 137
Samoa :
8,453,373
2009
Samoan Immigration
# 138
Gambia, The :
8,412,828
2009
Gambian Immigration
# 139
Pakistan :
8,000,000
2009
Pakistani Immigration
# 140
Bangladesh :
7,588,951
2009
Bangladeshi Immigration
# 141
Zimbabwe :
7,240,075
1994
Zimbabwean Immigration
# 142
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
7,055,470
2009
Saint Vincentian Immigration
# 143
Mexico :
7,000,000
1982
Mexican Immigration
# 144
Ghana :
6,400,000
2009
Ghanaian Immigration
# 145
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
5,938,074
2009
Nevisian Immigration
# 146
Djibouti :
5,789,974
2009
Djiboutian Immigration
# 147
Uruguay :
5,622,000
2009
Uruguayan Immigration
# 148
Chile :
5,600,000
2009
Chilean Immigration
= 149
Suriname :
5,100,000
2009
Surinamese Immigration
= 149
Faroe Islands :
5,100,000
2009
Faroese Immigration
# 151
Solomon Islands :
4,411,557
2009
Solomon Islander Immigration
# 152
Turkmenistan :
4,400,000
1997
Turkmen Immigration
# 153
Saint Lucia :
4,281,436
2009
Saint Lucian Immigration
# 154
Grenada :
3,653,682
2009
Grenadian Immigration
# 155
Comoros :
3,504,675
1995
Comoran Immigration
# 156
Sierra Leone :
3,491,082
2009
Sierra Leonean Immigration
= 157
Nicaragua :
2,600,000
1983
Nicaraguan Immigration
= 157
Vanuatu :
2,600,000
2009
- Immigration
# 159
Somalia :
2,571,629
1983
Somali Immigration
# 160
Antigua and Barbuda :
2,226,866
2009
Barbudan Immigration
# 161
Sudan :
2,000,000
2009
Sudanese Immigration
# 162
Eritrea :
1,309,558
2000
Eritrean Immigration
# 163
Burundi :
1,196,980
2009
Burundian Immigration
# 164
Liberia :
1,008,166
2009
Liberian Immigration
# 165
Kiribati :
731,127.3
1994
- Immigration
# 166
São Tomé and Príncipe :
546,840
2009
Sao Tomean Immigration
# 167
Malawi :
440,000
2009
Malawian Immigration
# 168
Equatorial Guinea :
331,409.3
1994
Equatorial Guinean Immigration
# 169
Dominica :
174,628.5
2009
Dominican Immigration
# 170
Paraguay :
100,000
1988
Paraguayan Immigration
Weighted average:
1,656,957,616.7
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
99,850,039,910
DEFINITION: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers resident in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status, to recipients in their country of origin. Migrants' transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. Data are in current U.S. dollars."
SOURCE: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.
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