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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 :
23,723,200,000
1996
American Immigration
# 2
Saudi Arabia :
15,492,530,000
1996
Saudi Immigration
# 3
Germany :
11,026,480,000
1996
German Immigration
# 4
Switzerland :
9,614,000,000
1996
Swiss Immigration
# 5
France :
4,462,989,000
1996
French Immigration
# 6
Netherlands :
4,260,394,000
1996
Dutch Immigration
# 7
Russia :
4,036,230,000
1996
Russian Immigration
# 8
Japan :
3,554,048,000
1996
Japanese Immigration
# 9
Belgium :
3,418,261,000
1996
Belgian Immigration
# 10
Luxembourg :
2,304,241,000
1996
Luxembourg Immigration
# 11
Italy :
2,079,609,000
1996
Italian Immigration
# 12
Israel :
2,025,100,000
1996
Israeli Immigration
# 13
United Kingdom :
2,003,549,000
1996
British Immigration
# 14
Malaysia :
1,424,913,000
1996
Malaysian Immigration
# 15
Kuwait :
1,376,046,000
1996
Kuwaiti Immigration
# 16
Oman :
1,370,600,000
1996
Omani Immigration
# 17
Spain :
1,022,740,000
1996
Spanish Immigration
# 18
Australia :
871,201,100
1996
Australian Immigration
# 19
Norway :
647,206,900
1996
Norwegian Immigration
# 20
New Zealand :
604,967,300
1996
New Zealand Immigration
# 21
South Africa :
592,641,800
1996
South African Immigration
# 22
Bahrain :
559,308,500
1996
Bahraini Immigration
# 23
India :
537,989,300
1996
Indian Immigration
# 24
Côte d'Ivoire :
523,895,400
1996
Ivoirian Immigration
# 25
Sweden :
428,487,700
1996
Swedish Immigration
# 26
Kazakhstan :
422,600,000
1996
Kazakhstani Immigration
# 27
Brazil :
409,000,000
1996
Brazilian Immigration
# 28
Portugal :
357,945,300
1996
Portuguese Immigration
# 29
Austria :
346,233,900
1996
Austrian Immigration
# 30
Greece :
319,000,000
1996
Greek Immigration
# 31
Czech Republic :
302,574,600
1996
Czech Immigration
# 32
Venezuela :
290,000,000
1996
Venezuelan Immigration
# 33
Denmark :
289,415,400
1996
Danish Immigration
# 34
Libya :
271,520,300
1996
Libyan Immigration
# 35
Poland :
243,000,000
1996
Polish Immigration
# 36
Argentina :
207,300,000
1996
Argentine Immigration
# 37
Belarus :
191,700,000
1996
Belarusian Immigration
# 38
Ireland :
179,248,400
1996
Irish Immigration
# 39
China :
152,333,300
1996
Chinese Immigration
# 40
Colombia :
140,224,300
1996
Colombian Immigration
# 41
Gabon :
113,292,400
1996
Gabonese Immigration
# 42
Jordan :
99,858,960
1996
Jordanian Immigration
# 43
Botswana :
98,219,220
1996
Motswana -Batswana Immigration
# 44
Jamaica :
96,000,000
1996
Jamaican Immigration
# 45
Hungary :
94,154,040
1996
Hungarian Immigration
# 46
Cambodia :
77,200,000
1996
Cambodian Immigration
# 47
Vanuatu :
72,111,370
1996
- Immigration
# 48
Senegal :
67,922,650
1996
Senegalese Immigration
# 49
Lesotho :
60,481,620
1996
Basotho Immigration
# 50
Bahamas, The :
57,600,000
1996
Bahamian Immigration
# 51
Philippines :
57,000,000
1996
Philippine Immigration
# 52
Finland :
54,874,350
1996
Finnish Immigration
# 53
Cyprus :
53,612,260
1996
Cypriot Immigration
# 54
Burkina Faso :
48,803,950
1996
Burkinabe Immigration
# 55
Costa Rica :
46,020,000
1996
Costa Rican Immigration
# 56
Fiji :
40,048,460
1996
Fijian Immigration
# 57
Congo, Republic of the :
38,426,170
1996
Congolese Immigration
# 58
Cameroon :
37,081,630
1996
Cameroonian Immigration
# 59
Benin :
33,615,320
1996
Beninese Immigration
# 60
Bulgaria :
33,500,000
1996
Bulgarian Immigration
# 61
Niger :
33,392,470
1996
Nigerien Immigration
# 62
Lithuania :
33,075,000
1996
Lithuanian Immigration
# 63
Kyrgyzstan :
32,750,000
1996
Kyrgyzstani Immigration
# 64
Slovenia :
29,500,000
1996
Slovenian Immigration
# 65
Peru :
29,189,780
1996
Peruvian Immigration
# 66
Maldives :
27,462,500
1996
Maldivian Immigration
# 67
Guyana :
23,300,000
1996
Guyanese Immigration
# 68
Mali :
22,679,980
1996
Malian Immigration
# 69
Tunisia :
20,546,360
1996
Tunisian Immigration
# 70
Barbados :
20,350,000
1996
Barbadian Immigration
# 71
Syria :
20,000,000
1996
Syrian Immigration
# 72
Panama :
20,000,000
1996
Panamanian Immigration
# 73
Morocco :
18,930,970
1996
Moroccan Immigration
# 74
Papua New Guinea :
18,429,730
1996
Papua New Guinean Immigration
# 75
Nepal :
17,992,220
1996
Nepalese Immigration
# 76
Armenia :
17,000,000
1996
Armenian Immigration
# 77
Croatia :
16,435,600
1996
Croatian Immigration
# 78
Sri Lanka :
16,148,530
1996
Sri Lankan Immigration
# 79
Mozambique :
15,700,000
1996
Mozambican Immigration
# 80
Malta :
15,270,120
1996
Maltese Immigration
# 81
Iceland :
14,865,000
1996
Icelandic Immigration
# 82
Azerbaijan :
14,861,000
1996
Azerbaijani Immigration
# 83
Chile :
14,000,000
1996
Chilean Immigration
# 84
Netherlands Antilles :
13,631,280
1996
Dutch Antillean Immigration
# 85
Madagascar :
13,210,210
1996
Malagasy Immigration
# 86
Slovakia :
13,104,580
1996
Slovak Immigration
# 87
Bolivia :
13,000,000
1996
Bolivian Immigration
# 88
Guatemala :
12,700,000
1996
Guatemalan Immigration
# 89
Mauritania :
12,235,680
1996
Mauritanian Immigration
# 90
Guinea :
11,261,000
1996
Guinean Immigration
# 91
Solomon Islands :
11,159,840
1996
Solomon Islander Immigration
# 92
Namibia :
10,769,070
1996
Namibian Immigration
# 93
Laos :
10,300,000
1996
Lao Immigration
# 94
Ecuador :
9,000,000
1996
Ecuadorian Immigration
# 95
Dominican Republic :
8,900,000
1996
Dominican Immigration
# 96
Kenya :
8,754,290
1996
Kenyan Immigration
# 97
Belize :
8,425,000
1996
Belizean Immigration
# 98
Honduras :
8,100,000
1996
Honduran Immigration
# 99
Aruba :
7,932,961
1996
Aruban Immigration
# 100
Turkmenistan :
7,250,000
1996
Turkmen Immigration
# 101
Togo :
6,800,867
1996
Togolese Immigration
# 102
Saint Lucia :
6,551,852
1996
Saint Lucian Immigration
# 103
Moldova :
5,980,000
1996
Moldovan Immigration
# 104
Samoa :
5,860,677
1996
Samoan Immigration
# 105
Rwanda :
5,567,491
1996
Rwandan Immigration
# 106
Ghana :
5,000,000
1996
Ghanaian Immigration
# 107
Burundi :
4,812,604
1996
Burundian Immigration
# 108
Guinea-Bissau :
3,696,594
1996
Guinean Immigration
# 109
Swaziland :
3,661,950
1996
Swazi Immigration
# 110
Pakistan :
3,557,046
1996
Pakistani Immigration
# 111
Cape Verde :
3,480,263
1996
Cape Verdean Immigration
# 112
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
3,300,000
1996
Saint Vincentian Immigration
# 113
Suriname :
2,900,000
1996
Surinamese Immigration
# 114
Estonia :
2,192,881
1996
Estonian Immigration
# 115
Latvia :
2,168,000
1996
Latvian Immigration
# 116
Antigua and Barbuda :
2,051,852
1996
Barbudan Immigration
# 117
Romania :
2,000,000
1996
Romanian Immigration
# 118
Grenada :
1,964,815
1996
Grenadian Immigration
# 119
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
1,862,963
1996
Nevisian Immigration
# 120
Nigeria :
1,746,730
1996
Nigerian Immigration
# 121
El Salvador :
1,484,866
1996
Salvadoran Immigration
# 122
Malawi :
1,175,820
1996
Malawian Immigration
# 123
Ethiopia :
1,084,585
1996
Ethiopian Immigration
# 124
Ukraine :
1,000,000
1996
Ukrainian Immigration
# 125
Macedonia, Republic of :
850,000
1996
Macedonian Immigration
# 126
Tanzania :
810,377.4
1996
Tanzanian Immigration
# 127
Bangladesh :
790,506.6
1996
Bangladeshi Immigration
# 128
Mauritius :
780,028.3
1996
Mauritian Immigration
# 129
Sudan :
650,000
1996
Sudanese Immigration
# 130
Dominica :
181,481.5
1996
Dominican Immigration
# 131
Sierra Leone :
6,407.9
1996
Sierra Leonean Immigration
Weighted average:
788,773,710.1
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
33,377,619,531
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 (1996) 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=1996
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