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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 :
46,995,150,000
2007
American Immigration
# 2
Russia :
17,762,580,000
2007
Russian Immigration
# 3
Saudi Arabia :
16,446,640,000
2007
Saudi Immigration
# 4
Switzerland :
16,292,270,000
2007
Swiss Immigration
# 5
Spain :
15,191,100,000
2007
Spanish Immigration
# 6
Germany :
13,882,450,000
2007
German Immigration
# 7
Netherlands :
12,634,560,000
2007
Dutch Immigration
# 8
Italy :
11,284,210,000
2007
Italian Immigration
# 9
Kuwait :
9,763,771,000
2007
Kuwaiti Immigration
# 10
Luxembourg :
9,068,178,000
2007
Luxembourg Immigration
# 11
Malaysia :
6,388,479,000
2007
Malaysian Immigration
# 12
France :
5,997,817,000
2007
French Immigration
# 13
United Kingdom :
4,834,320,000
2007
British Immigration
# 14
China :
4,372,402,000
2007
Chinese Immigration
# 15
Kazakhstan :
4,303,469,000
2007
Kazakhstani Immigration
# 16
Japan :
4,037,210,000
2007
Japanese Immigration
# 17
Oman :
3,669,701,000
2007
Omani Immigration
# 18
Norway :
3,641,610,000
2007
Norwegian Immigration
# 19
Belgium :
3,202,189,000
2007
Belgian Immigration
# 20
Australia :
3,023,872,000
2007
Australian Immigration
# 21
Denmark :
3,019,202,000
2007
Danish Immigration
# 22
Austria :
3,007,762,000
2007
Austrian Immigration
# 23
Lebanon :
2,961,900,000
2007
Lebanese Immigration
# 24
Israel :
2,797,900,000
2007
Israeli Immigration
# 25
Ireland :
2,624,530,000
2007
Irish Immigration
# 26
Czech Republic :
2,069,352,000
2007
Czech Immigration
# 27
India :
2,059,331,000
2007
Indian Immigration
# 28
Indonesia :
1,654,250,000
2007
Indonesian Immigration
# 29
Bahrain :
1,482,771,000
2007
Bahraini Immigration
# 30
Greece :
1,459,759,000
2007
Greek Immigration
# 31
Hungary :
1,306,903,000
2007
Hungarian Immigration
# 32
Portugal :
1,284,231,000
2007
Portuguese Immigration
# 33
Poland :
1,278,000,000
2007
Polish Immigration
# 34
New Zealand :
1,207,369,000
2007
New Zealand Immigration
# 35
South Africa :
1,185,786,000
2007
South African Immigration
# 36
Brazil :
895,753,000
2007
Brazilian Immigration
# 37
Libya :
762,200,000
2007
Libyan Immigration
# 38
Sweden :
740,842,700
2007
Swedish Immigration
# 39
Côte d'Ivoire :
698,348,000
2007
Ivoirian Immigration
# 40
Venezuela :
649,000,000
2007
Venezuelan Immigration
# 41
Lithuania :
566,681,000
2007
Lithuanian Immigration
# 42
Jordan :
479,266,700
2007
Jordanian Immigration
# 43
Argentina :
462,540,000
2007
Argentine Immigration
# 44
Jamaica :
453,902,600
2007
Jamaican Immigration
# 45
Azerbaijan :
435,365,000
2007
Azerbaijani Immigration
# 46
Brunei :
430,285,300
2007
Bruneian Immigration
# 47
Finland :
391,311,700
2007
Finnish Immigration
# 48
Cyprus :
370,326,600
2007
Cypriot Immigration
# 49
Romania :
353,000,000
2007
Romanian Immigration
# 50
Sri Lanka :
314,250,000
2007
Sri Lankan Immigration
# 51
Papua New Guinea :
283,946,700
2007
Papua New Guinean Immigration
# 52
Costa Rica :
271,414,300
2007
Costa Rican Immigration
# 53
Syria :
251,500,000
2007
Syrian Immigration
# 54
Slovenia :
250,341,800
2007
Slovenian Immigration
# 55
Uganda :
235,713,800
2007
Ugandan Immigration
# 56
Kyrgyzstan :
219,716,500
2007
Kyrgyzstani Immigration
# 57
Cambodia :
185,620,800
2007
Cambodian Immigration
# 58
Gabon :
185,600,000
2007
Gabonese Immigration
# 59
Tajikistan :
183,997,600
2007
Tajikistani Immigration
# 60
Armenia :
176,140,000
2007
Armenian Immigration
# 61
Bahamas, The :
170,720,000
2007
Bahamian Immigration
# 62
Panama :
150,900,000
2007
Panamanian Immigration
# 63
Senegal :
143,243,800
2007
Senegalese Immigration
# 64
Peru :
140,971,200
2007
Peruvian Immigration
# 65
Zambia :
123,930,000
2007
Zambian Immigration
# 66
Botswana :
119,735,200
2007
Motswana -Batswana Immigration
# 67
Guinea :
119,430,000
2007
Guinean Immigration
# 68
Benin :
114,552,100
2007
Beninese Immigration
# 69
Serbia and Montenegro :
114,331,100
2007
Serbian Immigration
# 70
Belarus :
109,200,000
2007
Belarusian Immigration
# 71
Turkey :
106,000,000
2007
Turkish Immigration
# 72
Maldives :
105,630,400
2007
Maldivian Immigration
# 73
Bulgaria :
102,605,400
2007
Bulgarian Immigration
# 74
Congo, Republic of the :
102,239,500
2007
Congolese Immigration
# 75
Iceland :
100,179,800
2007
Icelandic Immigration
# 76
Haiti :
96,406,380
2007
Haitian Immigration
# 77
Estonia :
95,677,600
2007
Estonian Immigration
# 78
Colombia :
95,056,920
2007
Colombian Immigration
# 79
Burkina Faso :
93,198,620
2007
Burkinabe Immigration
# 80
Mongolia :
90,323,100
2007
Mongolian Immigration
# 81
Cameroon :
89,563,900
2007
Cameroonian Immigration
# 82
Croatia :
87,075,130
2007
Croatian Immigration
# 83
Moldova :
86,710,000
2007
Moldovan Immigration
# 84
Ecuador :
82,992,280
2007
Ecuadorian Immigration
# 85
Mali :
82,670,030
2007
Malian Immigration
# 86
Aruba :
82,318,440
2007
Aruban Immigration
# 87
Bolivia :
78,912,290
2007
Bolivian Immigration
# 88
Slovakia :
73,149,830
2007
Slovak Immigration
# 89
Netherlands Antilles :
72,027,930
2007
Dutch Antillean Immigration
# 90
Rwanda :
68,119,000
2007
Rwandan Immigration
# 91
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
65,397,820
2007
Herzegovinian Immigration
# 92
Suriname :
64,800,000
2007
Surinamese Immigration
# 93
Guyana :
61,644,000
2007
Guyanese Immigration
# 94
French Polynesia :
55,730,530
2007
French Polynesian Immigration
# 95
New Caledonia :
55,565,420
2007
New Caledonian Immigration
# 96
Nigeria :
53,993,480
2007
Nigerian Immigration
# 97
Malta :
53,806,390
2007
Maltese Immigration
# 98
Barbados :
53,554,010
2007
Barbadian Immigration
# 99
Morocco :
51,936,260
2007
Moroccan Immigration
# 100
Togo :
47,155,360
2007
Togolese Immigration
# 101
Tanzania :
46,414,940
2007
Tanzanian Immigration
# 102
Mozambique :
45,250,480
2007
Mozambican Immigration
# 103
Latvia :
45,000,000
2007
Latvian Immigration
# 104
Ukraine :
42,000,000
2007
Ukrainian Immigration
# 105
Philippines :
35,000,000
2007
Philippine Immigration
# 106
Burma :
31,700,000
2007
Burmese Immigration
# 107
Fiji :
30,827,710
2007
Fijian Immigration
# 108
El Salvador :
28,500,000
2007
Salvadoran Immigration
# 109
Georgia :
28,365,310
2007
Georgian Immigration
# 110
Dominican Republic :
28,200,000
2007
Dominican Immigration
# 111
Macedonia, Republic of :
24,875,470
2007
Macedonian Immigration
# 112
Belize :
22,477,600
2007
Belizean Immigration
# 113
Seychelles :
21,254,880
2007
Seychellois Immigration
# 114
Madagascar :
21,200,000
2007
Malagasy Immigration
# 115
Lesotho :
20,993,990
2007
Basotho Immigration
# 116
Niger :
18,012,930
2007
Nigerien Immigration
# 117
Iraq :
17,300,000
2007
Iraqi Immigration
# 118
Guatemala :
16,900,000
2007
Guatemalan Immigration
# 119
Kenya :
16,364,510
2007
Kenyan Immigration
# 120
Namibia :
16,055,400
2007
Namibian Immigration
# 121
Tunisia :
15,218,230
2007
Tunisian Immigration
# 122
Ethiopia :
14,567,670
2007
Ethiopian Immigration
# 123
Tonga :
12,648,190
2007
Tongan Immigration
# 124
Mauritius :
11,574,870
2007
Mauritian Immigration
# 125
Samoa :
10,205,980
2007
Samoan Immigration
# 126
Albania :
9,940,000
2007
Albanian Immigration
# 127
Swaziland :
8,194,763
2007
Swazi Immigration
# 128
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
7,364,123
2007
Saint Vincentian Immigration
# 129
Ghana :
6,400,000
2007
Ghanaian Immigration
# 130
Cape Verde :
6,026,453
2007
Cape Verdean Immigration
# 131
Laos :
6,000,000
2007
Lao Immigration
# 132
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
5,897,107
2007
Nevisian Immigration
# 133
Chile :
5,700,000
2007
Chilean Immigration
# 134
Faroe Islands :
5,100,000
2007
Faroese Immigration
# 135
Djibouti :
4,698,376
2007
Djiboutian Immigration
# 136
Saint Lucia :
4,354,022
2007
Saint Lucian Immigration
# 137
Guinea-Bissau :
4,329,530
2007
Guinean Immigration
# 138
Nepal :
3,953,399
2007
Nepalese Immigration
# 139
Sierra Leone :
3,787,476
2007
Sierra Leonean Immigration
# 140
Solomon Islands :
3,662,987
2007
Solomon Islander Immigration
# 141
Grenada :
3,632,982
2007
Grenadian Immigration
# 142
Uruguay :
3,536,000
2007
Uruguayan Immigration
# 143
Bangladesh :
2,809,832
2007
Bangladeshi Immigration
# 144
Vanuatu :
2,625,059
2007
- Immigration
# 145
Honduras :
2,487,220
2007
Honduran Immigration
# 146
Antigua and Barbuda :
2,131,100
2007
Barbudan Immigration
# 147
Sudan :
2,041,564
2007
Sudanese Immigration
# 148
Pakistan :
2,000,000
2007
Pakistani Immigration
# 149
Gambia, The :
1,134,064
2007
Gambian Immigration
# 150
São Tomé and Príncipe :
692,759.6
2007
Sao Tomean Immigration
# 151
Malawi :
440,000
2007
Malawian Immigration
# 152
Liberia :
255,220.3
2007
Liberian Immigration
# 153
Burundi :
252,156
2007
Burundian Immigration
# 154
Dominica :
167,848.2
2007
Dominican Immigration
Weighted average:
1,656,968,151.7
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
95,187,306,020
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 (2007) 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=2007
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