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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
Germany :
4,255,071,000
1977
German Immigration
# 2
France :
2,768,169,000
1977
French Immigration
# 3
Saudi Arabia :
1,506,355,000
1977
Saudi Immigration
# 4
Switzerland :
1,306,415,000
1977
Swiss Immigration
# 5
United States :
1,060,000,000
1977
American Immigration
# 6
Libya :
839,720,200
1977
Libyan Immigration
# 7
Belgium :
713,931,500
1977
Belgian Immigration
# 8
South Africa :
629,050,000
1977
South African Immigration
# 9
Netherlands :
543,714,600
1977
Dutch Immigration
# 10
Kuwait :
369,897,300
1977
Kuwaiti Immigration
# 11
Côte d'Ivoire :
351,270,400
1977
Ivoirian Immigration
# 12
Bahrain :
347,529,400
1977
Bahraini Immigration
# 13
Italy :
242,560,700
1977
Italian Immigration
# 14
Austria :
239,277,400
1977
Austrian Immigration
# 15
Venezuela :
232,000,000
1977
Venezuelan Immigration
# 16
Oman :
221,771,900
1977
Omani Immigration
# 17
Australia :
208,692,500
1977
Australian Immigration
# 18
Nigeria :
198,541,600
1977
Nigerian Immigration
# 19
Japan :
130,000,000
1977
Japanese Immigration
# 20
Brazil :
114,000,000
1977
Brazilian Immigration
# 21
Sweden :
102,375,600
1977
Swedish Immigration
# 22
New Zealand :
98,999,170
1977
New Zealand Immigration
# 23
Algeria :
83,920,970
1977
Algerian Immigration
# 24
Norway :
66,100,570
1977
Norwegian Immigration
# 25
Morocco :
61,287,770
1977
Moroccan Immigration
# 26
Greece :
55,000,000
1977
Greek Immigration
# 27
Jordan :
45,614,700
1977
Jordanian Immigration
# 28
Haiti :
44,100,000
1977
Haitian Immigration
# 29
Botswana :
40,619,520
1977
Motswana -Batswana Immigration
# 30
Burkina Faso :
40,516,170
1977
Burkinabe Immigration
# 31
Zimbabwe :
40,264,180
1977
Zimbabwean Immigration
# 32
Jamaica :
34,900,000
1977
Jamaican Immigration
# 33
Netherlands Antilles :
30,222,220
1977
Dutch Antillean Immigration
# 34
Bahamas, The :
29,200,000
1977
Bahamian Immigration
# 35
Portugal :
26,513,480
1977
Portuguese Immigration
# 36
Madagascar :
26,009,570
1977
Malagasy Immigration
# 37
Ecuador :
24,800,000
1977
Ecuadorian Immigration
# 38
Papua New Guinea :
24,379,830
1977
Papua New Guinean Immigration
# 39
Senegal :
24,015,010
1977
Senegalese Immigration
# 40
Tunisia :
23,312,740
1977
Tunisian Immigration
# 41
Mauritania :
22,330,890
1977
Mauritanian Immigration
# 42
Niger :
21,849,590
1977
Nigerien Immigration
# 43
Colombia :
21,015,360
1977
Colombian Immigration
# 44
El Salvador :
14,760,000
1977
Salvadoran Immigration
# 45
Suriname :
14,100,000
1977
Surinamese Immigration
# 46
Rwanda :
13,498,710
1977
Rwandan Immigration
# 47
Kenya :
12,807,250
1977
Kenyan Immigration
# 48
India :
11,641,250
1977
Indian Immigration
# 49
Finland :
11,640,780
1977
Finnish Immigration
# 50
Chad :
11,506,850
1977
Chadian Immigration
# 51
Trinidad and Tobago :
11,375,000
1977
Tobagonian Immigration
# 52
Central African Republic :
11,335,900
1977
Central African Immigration
# 53
Cameroon :
10,908,510
1977
Cameroonian Immigration
# 54
Thailand :
10,833,280
1977
Thai Immigration
# 55
Malaysia :
10,563,590
1977
Malaysian Immigration
# 56
Togo :
8,156,962
1977
Togolese Immigration
# 57
Israel :
8,000,000
1977
Israeli Immigration
# 58
Guatemala :
8,000,000
1977
Guatemalan Immigration
# 59
Philippines :
7,000,000
1977
Philippine Immigration
# 60
Mali :
6,186,918
1977
Malian Immigration
# 61
Tanzania :
5,308,106
1977
Tanzanian Immigration
# 62
Nicaragua :
4,600,000
1977
Nicaraguan Immigration
# 63
Sudan :
3,446,214
1977
Sudanese Immigration
# 64
Cyprus :
3,430,350
1977
Cypriot Immigration
# 65
Malta :
3,078,314
1977
Maltese Immigration
# 66
Spain :
2,655,160
1977
Spanish Immigration
# 67
Ethiopia :
2,415,459
1977
Ethiopian Immigration
# 68
Bolivia :
2,000,000
1977
Bolivian Immigration
# 69
Iceland :
2,000,000
1977
Icelandic Immigration
# 70
Swaziland :
1,265,000
1977
Swazi Immigration
# 71
Benin :
1,208,891
1977
Beninese Immigration
# 72
Mauritius :
908,085.3
1977
Mauritian Immigration
# 73
Paraguay :
800,000
1977
Paraguayan Immigration
# 74
Barbados :
650,000
1977
Barbadian Immigration
# 75
Bangladesh :
517,298.8
1977
Bangladeshi Immigration
# 76
Pakistan :
507,440.1
1977
Pakistani Immigration
# 77
Tonga :
494,532.9
1977
Tongan Immigration
Weighted average:
224,139,931.9
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
8,967,417,884
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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"Foreign worker salaries (1977) by country", World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/graph/imm_for_wor_sal-immigration-foreign-worker-salaries&date=1977
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