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DEFINITION
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Workers remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers who are residents of the host country to recipients in their country of origin. They include only transfers made by workers who have been living in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. 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.
Labor Statistics > Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (1996) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
India :
8,766,000,000 $
1996
Indian Labor
# 2
Mexico :
4,949,000,000 $
1996
Mexican Labor
# 3
Belgium :
4,947,000,000 $
1996
Belgian Labor
# 4
Philippines :
4,875,000,000 $
1996
Philippine Labor
# 5
France :
4,534,000,000 $
1996
French Labor
# 6
Germany :
4,344,000,000 $
1996
German Labor
# 7
Portugal :
3,810,000,000 $
1996
Portuguese Labor
# 8
Turkey :
3,542,000,000 $
1996
Turkish Labor
# 9
Spain :
3,494,000,000 $
1996
Spanish Labor
# 10
Egypt :
3,107,000,000 $
1996
Egyptian Labor
# 11
Greece :
3,079,000,000 $
1996
Greek Labor
# 12
Russia :
2,771,000,000 $
1996
Russian Labor
# 13
Italy :
2,585,000,000 $
1996
Italian Labor
# 14
Brazil :
2,527,000,000 $
1996
Brazilian Labor
# 15
United Kingdom :
2,519,000,000 $
1996
British Labor
# 16
United States :
2,181,000,000 $
1996
American Labor
# 17
Morocco :
2,165,000,000 $
1996
Moroccan Labor
# 18
Australia :
2,159,000,000 $
1996
Australian Labor
# 19
New Zealand :
2,107,000,000 $
1996
New Zealand Labor
# 20
Thailand :
1,806,000,000 $
1996
Thai Labor
# 21
China :
1,790,200,000 $
1996
Chinese Labor
# 22
Netherlands :
1,754,000,000 $
1996
Dutch Labor
# 23
Jordan :
1,702,000,000 $
1996
Jordanian Labor
# 24
Switzerland :
1,390,000,000 $
1996
Swiss Labor
# 25
Bangladesh :
1,345,000,000 $
1996
Bangladeshi Labor
# 26
Serbia and Montenegro :
1,295,000,000 $
1996
Serbian Labor
# 27
Pakistan :
1,284,000,000 $
1996
Pakistani Labor
# 28
Japan :
1,228,000,000 $
1996
Japanese Labor
# 29
Lebanon :
1,225,000,000 $
1996
Lebanese Labor
# 30
Yemen :
1,134,000,000 $
1996
Yemeni Labor
# 31
El Salvador :
1,084,000,000 $
1996
Salvadoran Labor
# 32
Austria :
984,000,000 $
1996
Austrian Labor
# 33
Dominican Republic :
963,000,000 $
1996
Dominican Labor
# 34
Nigeria :
947,000,000 $
1996
Nigerian Labor
# 35
Korea, South :
946,000,000 $
1996
Korean Labor
# 36
Algeria :
880,000,000 $
1996
Algerian Labor
# 37
Malaysia :
857,000,000 $
1996
Malaysian Labor
# 38
Sri Lanka :
852,000,000 $
1996
Sri Lankan Labor
# 39
Indonesia :
796,000,000 $
1996
Indonesian Labor
# 40
Poland :
774,000,000 $
1996
Polish Labor
# 41
Colombia :
753,000,000 $
1996
Colombian Labor
# 42
Tunisia :
736,000,000 $
1996
Tunisian Labor
# 43
Jamaica :
714,000,000 $
1996
Jamaican Labor
# 44
Croatia :
668,000,000 $
1996
Croatian Labor
# 45
Israel :
660,000,000 $
1996
Israeli Labor
# 46
Iran :
658,000,000 $
1996
Iranian Labor
# 47
Peru :
597,000,000 $
1996
Peruvian Labor
# 48
Albania :
551,000,000 $
1996
Albanian Labor
# 49
Denmark :
523,000,000 $
1996
Danish Labor
# 50
Ecuador :
489,000,000 $
1996
Ecuadorian Labor
# 51
Lesotho :
388,000,000 $
1996
Basotho Labor
# 52
Guatemala :
375,000,000 $
1996
Guatemalan Labor
# 53
Ireland :
362,000,000 $
1996
Irish Labor
# 54
Belarus :
351,000,000 $
1996
Belarusian Labor
# 55
Syria :
313,000,000 $
1996
Syrian Labor
# 56
Norway :
309,000,000 $
1996
Norwegian Labor
# 57
Sweden :
301,000,000 $
1996
Swedish Labor
# 58
Paraguay :
297,000,000 $
1996
Paraguayan Labor
# 59
Kenya :
288,420,000 $
1996
Kenyan Labor
# 60
Slovenia :
279,000,000 $
1996
Slovenian Labor
# 61
Sudan :
222,000,000 $
1996
Sudanese Labor
# 62
Hungary :
169,000,000 $
1996
Hungarian Labor
# 63
Mauritius :
160,000,000 $
1996
Mauritian Labor
# 64
Honduras :
157,000,000 $
1996
Honduran Labor
# 65
Haiti :
152,000,000 $
1996
Haitian Labor
# 66
Senegal :
150,000,000 $
1996
Senegalese Labor
# 67
Côte d'Ivoire :
147,000,000 $
1996
Ivoirian Labor
# 68
Finland :
145,000,000 $
1996
Finnish Labor
# 69
Costa Rica :
131,000,000 $
1996
Costa Rican Labor
# 70
Burma :
124,000,000 $
1996
Burmese Labor
# 71
Czech Republic :
112,000,000 $
1996
Czech Labor
# 72
Mali :
111,000,000 $
1996
Malian Labor
# 73
South Africa :
102,000,000 $
1996
South African Labor
# 74
Cape Verde :
100,000,000 $
1996
Cape Verdean Labor
# 75
Nicaragua :
95,000,000 $
1996
Nicaraguan Labor
# 76
Kazakhstan :
89,000,000 $
1996
Kazakhstani Labor
# 77
Moldova :
87,000,000 $
1996
Moldovan Labor
# 78
Benin :
86,000,000 $
1996
Beninese Labor
# 79
Panama :
86,000,000 $
1996
Panamanian Labor
# 80
Armenia :
84,000,000 $
1996
Armenian Labor
# 81
Burkina Faso :
80,000,000 $
1996
Burkinabe Labor
# 82
Swaziland :
76,000,000 $
1996
Swazi Labor
# 83
Iceland :
74,000,000 $
1996
Icelandic Labor
# 84
Macedonia, Republic of :
68,000,000 $
1996
Macedonian Labor
# 85
Mozambique :
61,000,000 $
1996
Mozambican Labor
# 86
Barbados :
60,000,000 $
1996
Barbadian Labor
# 87
Argentina :
57,000,000 $
1996
Argentine Labor
# 88
Botswana :
50,000,000 $
1996
Motswana -Batswana Labor
# 89
Cyprus :
49,000,000 $
1996
Cypriot Labor
# 90
Laos :
45,000,000 $
1996
Lao Labor
# 91
Samoa :
44,000,000 $
1996
Samoan Labor
# 92
Nepal :
44,000,000 $
1996
Nepalese Labor
# 93
Bulgaria :
42,000,000 $
1996
Bulgarian Labor
# 94
Latvia :
41,000,000 $
1996
Latvian Labor
# 95
Oman :
39,000,000 $
1996
Omani Labor
# 96
Vanuatu :
36,000,000 $
1996
- Labor
# 97
Fiji :
33,000,000 $
1996
Fijian Labor
# 98
Togo :
29,000,000 $
1996
Togolese Labor
# 99
Trinidad and Tobago :
28,000,000 $
1996
Tobagonian Labor
# 100
Ghana :
28,000,000 $
1996
Ghanaian Labor
# 101
Sierra Leone :
25,000,000 $
1996
Sierra Leonean Labor
# 102
Netherlands Antilles :
24,000,000 $
1996
Dutch Antillean Labor
# 103
Slovakia :
21,000,000 $
1996
Slovak Labor
# 104
Malta :
21,000,000 $
1996
Maltese Labor
# 105
Grenada :
20,000,000 $
1996
Grenadian Labor
# 106
Gambia, The :
20,000,000 $
1996
Gambian Labor
# 107
Tanzania :
19,000,000 $
1996
Tanzanian Labor
# 108
Romania :
18,000,000 $
1996
Romanian Labor
# 109
Belize :
17,000,000 $
1996
Belizean Labor
# 110
Ethiopia :
16,000,000 $
1996
Ethiopian Labor
# 111
Guyana :
15,000,000 $
1996
Guyanese Labor
# 112
Papua New Guinea :
15,000,000 $
1996
Papua New Guinean Labor
# 113
Namibia :
14,000,000 $
1996
Namibian Labor
# 114
Bolivia :
14,000,000 $
1996
Bolivian Labor
# 115
Comoros :
12,000,000 $
1996
Comoran Labor
# 116
Cambodia :
12,000,000 $
1996
Cambodian Labor
# 117
Aruba :
12,000,000 $
1996
Aruban Labor
# 118
Madagascar :
11,000,000 $
1996
Malagasy Labor
# 119
Cameroon :
11,000,000 $
1996
Cameroonian Labor
# 120
Congo, Republic of the :
8,000,000 $
1996
Congolese Labor
# 121
Kiribati :
7,000,000 $
1996
- Labor
# 122
Gabon :
6,000,000 $
1996
Gabonese Labor
# 123
Ukraine :
6,000,000 $
1996
Ukrainian Labor
# 124
Rwanda :
5,000,000 $
1996
Rwandan Labor
# 125
Angola :
5,000,000 $
1996
Angolan Labor
# 126
Niger :
4,000,000 $
1996
Nigerien Labor
# 127
Venezuela :
4,000,000 $
1996
Venezuelan Labor
# 128
Mauritania :
4,000,000 $
1996
Mauritanian Labor
# 129
Turkmenistan :
4,000,000 $
1996
Turkmen Labor
# 130
Maldives :
3,000,000 $
1996
Maldivian Labor
# 131
Dominica :
3,000,000 $
1996
Dominican Labor
# 132
Lithuania :
3,000,000 $
1996
Lithuanian Labor
# 133
Antigua and Barbuda :
3,000,000 $
1996
Barbudan Labor
# 134
Saint Lucia :
2,000,000 $
1996
Saint Lucian Labor
# 135
Guinea-Bissau :
2,000,000 $
1996
Guinean Labor
# 136
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
2,000,000 $
1996
Saint Vincentian Labor
# 137
Kyrgyzstan :
2,000,000 $
1996
Kyrgyzstani Labor
# 138
Estonia :
2,000,000 $
1996
Estonian Labor
# 139
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
2,000,000 $
1996
Nevisian Labor
# 140
Guinea :
1,000,000 $
1996
Guinean Labor
# 141
Malawi :
1,000,000 $
1996
Malawian Labor
# 142
Seychelles :
1,000,000 $
1996
Seychellois Labor
Total :
106,999,620,000 $
Weighted average:
753,518,450.7 $
DEFINITION: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Workers remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers who are residents of the host country to recipients in their country of origin. They include only transfers made by workers who have been living in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. 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.
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