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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 :
8,660,000,000
1986
American Immigration
# 2
France :
5,141,358,000
1986
French Immigration
# 3
Saudi Arabia :
4,800,000,000
1986
Saudi Immigration
# 4
Germany :
4,636,389,000
1986
German Immigration
# 5
Switzerland :
3,777,273,000
1986
Swiss Immigration
# 6
Kuwait :
1,083,984,000
1986
Kuwaiti Immigration
# 7
Belgium :
986,456,300
1986
Belgian Immigration
# 8
Netherlands :
885,802,600
1986
Dutch Immigration
# 9
Oman :
884,858,600
1986
Omani Immigration
# 10
South Africa :
843,415,800
1986
South African Immigration
# 11
Italy :
795,286,800
1986
Italian Immigration
# 12
Bahrain :
716,223,400
1986
Bahraini Immigration
# 13
Japan :
578,116,600
1986
Japanese Immigration
# 14
Israel :
552,800,000
1986
Israeli Immigration
# 15
Libya :
489,860,700
1986
Libyan Immigration
# 16
Côte d'Ivoire :
431,988,000
1986
Ivoirian Immigration
# 17
Sweden :
337,915,800
1986
Swedish Immigration
# 18
Australia :
291,884,200
1986
Australian Immigration
# 19
Jordan :
246,961,500
1986
Jordanian Immigration
# 20
Austria :
224,538,700
1986
Austrian Immigration
# 21
Venezuela :
185,000,000
1986
Venezuelan Immigration
# 22
Norway :
181,133,000
1986
Norwegian Immigration
# 23
New Zealand :
171,737,400
1986
New Zealand Immigration
# 24
Ecuador :
167,000,000
1986
Ecuadorian Immigration
# 25
Gabon :
165,114,100
1986
Gabonese Immigration
# 26
Nigeria :
149,898,300
1986
Nigerian Immigration
# 27
Liberia :
136,200,000
1986
Liberian Immigration
# 28
Cameroon :
135,285,000
1986
Cameroonian Immigration
# 29
Spain :
128,681,000
1986
Spanish Immigration
# 30
Algeria :
101,439,400
1986
Algerian Immigration
# 31
Ireland :
92,841,350
1986
Irish Immigration
# 32
Niger :
72,848,880
1986
Nigerien Immigration
# 33
Greece :
60,000,000
1986
Greek Immigration
# 34
Thailand :
59,374,300
1986
Thai Immigration
# 35
Senegal :
57,896,790
1986
Senegalese Immigration
# 36
Haiti :
53,400,000
1986
Haitian Immigration
# 37
Burkina Faso :
49,268,580
1986
Burkinabe Immigration
# 38
India :
42,055,760
1986
Indian Immigration
# 39
Zambia :
41,900,000
1986
Zambian Immigration
# 40
Jamaica :
41,500,000
1986
Jamaican Immigration
# 41
Congo, Republic of the :
38,971,320
1986
Congolese Immigration
# 42
Papua New Guinea :
38,888,310
1986
Papua New Guinean Immigration
# 43
Mali :
37,827,830
1986
Malian Immigration
# 44
Portugal :
37,534,750
1986
Portuguese Immigration
# 45
Peru :
33,310,000
1986
Peruvian Immigration
# 46
Bahamas, The :
32,200,000
1986
Bahamian Immigration
# 47
Colombia :
31,000,000
1986
Colombian Immigration
# 48
Mauritania :
29,243,700
1986
Mauritanian Immigration
# 49
Trinidad and Tobago :
28,694,440
1986
Tobagonian Immigration
# 50
Panama :
27,100,000
1986
Panamanian Immigration
# 51
Central African Republic :
24,230,020
1986
Central African Immigration
# 52
Sudan :
24,040,000
1986
Sudanese Immigration
# 53
Rwanda :
23,586,920
1986
Rwandan Immigration
# 54
Mozambique :
23,000,000
1986
Mozambican Immigration
# 55
Botswana :
22,031,310
1986
Motswana -Batswana Immigration
# 56
Malaysia :
21,305,920
1986
Malaysian Immigration
# 57
Zimbabwe :
20,102,000
1986
Zimbabwean Immigration
# 58
Argentina :
20,000,000
1986
Argentine Immigration
# 59
Morocco :
18,782,040
1986
Moroccan Immigration
# 60
Chad :
17,663,570
1986
Chadian Immigration
# 61
Madagascar :
16,308,350
1986
Malagasy Immigration
# 62
Fiji :
14,123,470
1986
Fijian Immigration
# 63
Vanuatu :
13,905,150
1986
- Immigration
# 64
Netherlands Antilles :
12,777,780
1986
Dutch Antillean Immigration
# 65
Swaziland :
12,603,760
1986
Swazi Immigration
# 66
Chile :
12,100,000
1986
Chilean Immigration
# 67
Guinea :
11,750,000
1986
Guinean Immigration
# 68
Guinea-Bissau :
11,500,000
1986
Guinean Immigration
# 69
Antigua and Barbuda :
11,148,150
1986
Barbudan Immigration
# 70
Togo :
11,071,140
1986
Togolese Immigration
# 71
Brazil :
10,000,000
1986
Brazilian Immigration
# 72
Tunisia :
8,815,797
1986
Tunisian Immigration
# 73
Suriname :
7,400,000
1986
Surinamese Immigration
# 74
Burundi :
6,998,270
1986
Burundian Immigration
# 75
Cyprus :
6,947,888
1986
Cypriot Immigration
# 76
Grenada :
6,888,889
1986
Grenadian Immigration
# 77
Comoros :
6,785,965
1986
Comoran Immigration
# 78
Iceland :
6,700,000
1986
Icelandic Immigration
# 79
Kenya :
6,656,090
1986
Kenyan Immigration
# 80
Finland :
6,316,862
1986
Finnish Immigration
# 81
Malta :
6,106,987
1986
Maltese Immigration
# 82
Guatemala :
6,000,000
1986
Guatemalan Immigration
# 83
Philippines :
6,000,000
1986
Philippine Immigration
# 84
Bolivia :
5,100,000
1986
Bolivian Immigration
# 85
Belize :
4,650,000
1986
Belizean Immigration
# 86
Dominica :
4,370,370
1986
Dominican Immigration
# 87
Solomon Islands :
4,249,210
1986
Solomon Islander Immigration
# 88
Saint Lucia :
3,951,852
1986
Saint Lucian Immigration
# 89
Ghana :
3,600,000
1986
Ghanaian Immigration
# 90
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
3,155,555
1986
Saint Vincentian Immigration
# 91
Maldives :
3,043,139
1986
Maldivian Immigration
# 92
China :
3,000,000
1986
Chinese Immigration
# 93
Tonga :
2,905,547
1986
Tongan Immigration
# 94
Benin :
2,887,620
1986
Beninese Immigration
# 95
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
1,925,926
1986
Nevisian Immigration
# 96
Kiribati :
1,336,921
1986
- Immigration
# 97
Mauritius :
1,113,887
1986
Mauritian Immigration
# 98
Cape Verde :
1,080,543
1986
Cape Verdean Immigration
# 99
Pakistan :
902,645.5
1986
Pakistani Immigration
# 100
Barbados :
800,000
1986
Barbadian Immigration
# 101
Costa Rica :
800,000
1986
Costa Rican Immigration
# 102
São Tomé and Príncipe :
780,014.8
1986
Sao Tomean Immigration
# 103
El Salvador :
556,454.4
1986
Salvadoran Immigration
# 104
Ethiopia :
531,401
1986
Ethiopian Immigration
# 105
Samoa :
219,164.8
1986
Samoan Immigration
# 106
Sierra Leone :
111,855.9
1986
Sierra Leonean Immigration
# 107
Malawi :
53,732.4
1986
Malawian Immigration
Weighted average:
363,678,049.8
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
13,346,176,037
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 (1986) 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=1986
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