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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$ (2003) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
India :
21,727,000,000 $
2003
Indian Labor
# 2
China :
17,814,800,000 $
2003
Chinese Labor
# 3
Mexico :
14,911,000,000 $
2003
Mexican Labor
# 4
France :
11,310,000,000 $
2003
French Labor
# 5
Philippines :
10,243,000,000 $
2003
Philippine Labor
# 6
Spain :
6,071,700,000 $
2003
Spanish Labor
# 7
Belgium :
5,871,000,000 $
2003
Belgian Labor
# 8
Germany :
5,697,000,000 $
2003
German Labor
# 9
United Kingdom :
5,029,000,000 $
2003
British Labor
# 10
Lebanon :
4,672,000,000 $
2003
Lebanese Labor
# 11
Pakistan :
3,964,000,000 $
2003
Pakistani Labor
# 12
Morocco :
3,614,000,000 $
2003
Moroccan Labor
# 13
Bangladesh :
3,192,000,000 $
2003
Bangladeshi Labor
# 14
Colombia :
3,076,000,000 $
2003
Colombian Labor
# 15
Egypt :
2,961,000,000 $
2003
Egyptian Labor
# 16
Portugal :
2,954,000,000 $
2003
Portuguese Labor
# 17
Brazil :
2,822,000,000 $
2003
Brazilian Labor
# 18
United States :
2,813,000,000 $
2003
American Labor
# 19
Vietnam :
2,700,000,000 $
2003
Vietnamese Labor
# 20
Serbia and Montenegro :
2,661,000,000 $
2003
Serbian Labor
# 21
Poland :
2,655,000,000 $
2003
Polish Labor
# 22
Dominican Republic :
2,326,000,000 $
2003
Dominican Labor
# 23
Austria :
2,310,000,000 $
2003
Austrian Labor
# 24
Australia :
2,228,000,000 $
2003
Australian Labor
# 25
Jordan :
2,201,000,000 $
2003
Jordanian Labor
# 26
Guatemala :
2,147,000,000 $
2003
Guatemalan Labor
# 27
Italy :
2,140,000,000 $
2003
Italian Labor
# 28
El Salvador :
2,122,000,000 $
2003
Salvadoran Labor
# 29
Netherlands :
2,024,000,000 $
2003
Dutch Labor
# 30
Algeria :
1,750,000,000 $
2003
Algerian Labor
# 31
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
1,749,000,000 $
2003
Herzegovinian Labor
# 32
Bulgaria :
1,718,000,000 $
2003
Bulgarian Labor
# 33
Switzerland :
1,706,000,000 $
2003
Swiss Labor
# 34
Ecuador :
1,633,000,000 $
2003
Ecuadorian Labor
# 35
Thailand :
1,607,000,000 $
2003
Thai Labor
# 36
Greece :
1,564,000,000 $
2003
Greek Labor
# 37
Indonesia :
1,489,000,000 $
2003
Indonesian Labor
# 38
Russia :
1,453,000,000 $
2003
Russian Labor
# 39
Sri Lanka :
1,438,000,000 $
2003
Sri Lankan Labor
# 40
Jamaica :
1,399,000,000 $
2003
Jamaican Labor
# 41
New Zealand :
1,355,000,000 $
2003
New Zealand Labor
# 42
Yemen :
1,270,000,000 $
2003
Yemeni Labor
# 43
Tunisia :
1,250,000,000 $
2003
Tunisian Labor
# 44
Sudan :
1,224,000,000 $
2003
Sudanese Labor
# 45
Iran :
1,178,000,000 $
2003
Iranian Labor
# 46
Croatia :
1,085,000,000 $
2003
Croatian Labor
# 47
Japan :
1,079,000,000 $
2003
Japanese Labor
# 48
Nigeria :
1,062,800,000 $
2003
Nigerian Labor
# 49
Luxembourg :
1,034,000,000 $
2003
Luxembourg Labor
# 50
Malaysia :
987,000,000 $
2003
Malaysian Labor
# 51
Denmark :
941,000,000 $
2003
Danish Labor
# 52
Albania :
889,000,000 $
2003
Albanian Labor
# 53
Syria :
889,000,000 $
2003
Syrian Labor
# 54
Honduras :
867,000,000 $
2003
Honduran Labor
# 55
Peru :
860,000,000 $
2003
Peruvian Labor
# 56
Korea, South :
827,000,000 $
2003
Korean Labor
# 57
Haiti :
811,000,000 $
2003
Haitian Labor
# 58
Nepal :
771,100,000 $
2003
Nepalese Labor
# 59
Turkey :
729,000,000 $
2003
Turkish Labor
# 60
Armenia :
686,131,400 $
2003
Armenian Labor
# 61
Sweden :
578,000,000 $
2003
Swedish Labor
# 62
Finland :
526,000,000 $
2003
Finnish Labor
# 63
Senegal :
511,000,000 $
2003
Senegalese Labor
# 64
Czech Republic :
499,000,000 $
2003
Czech Labor
# 65
Kenya :
494,340,000 $
2003
Kenyan Labor
# 66
Moldova :
487,000,000 $
2003
Moldovan Labor
# 67
Nicaragua :
439,000,000 $
2003
Nicaraguan Labor
# 68
South Africa :
435,000,000 $
2003
South African Labor
# 69
Slovakia :
424,000,000 $
2003
Slovak Labor
# 70
Israel :
423,000,000 $
2003
Israeli Labor
# 71
Norway :
356,000,000 $
2003
Norwegian Labor
# 72
Ireland :
337,000,000 $
2003
Irish Labor
# 73
Ukraine :
330,000,000 $
2003
Ukrainian Labor
# 74
Costa Rica :
321,000,000 $
2003
Costa Rican Labor
# 75
Uganda :
306,000,000 $
2003
Ugandan Labor
# 76
Hungary :
295,000,000 $
2003
Hungarian Labor
# 77
Lesotho :
288,000,000 $
2003
Basotho Labor
# 78
Argentina :
256,000,000 $
2003
Argentine Labor
# 79
Georgia :
238,000,000 $
2003
Georgian Labor
# 80
Slovenia :
238,000,000 $
2003
Slovenian Labor
# 81
Paraguay :
223,000,000 $
2003
Paraguayan Labor
# 82
Belarus :
222,000,000 $
2003
Belarusian Labor
# 83
Mauritius :
215,000,000 $
2003
Mauritian Labor
# 84
Macedonia, Republic of :
174,000,000 $
2003
Macedonian Labor
# 85
Latvia :
173,000,000 $
2003
Latvian Labor
# 86
Azerbaijan :
171,000,000 $
2003
Azerbaijani Labor
# 87
Bolivia :
159,000,000 $
2003
Bolivian Labor
# 88
Mali :
154,000,000 $
2003
Malian Labor
# 89
Togo :
148,000,000 $
2003
Togolese Labor
# 90
Kazakhstan :
147,000,000 $
2003
Kazakhstani Labor
# 91
Tajikistan :
146,000,000 $
2003
Tajikistani Labor
# 92
Côte d'Ivoire :
142,000,000 $
2003
Ivoirian Labor
# 93
Cambodia :
138,000,000 $
2003
Cambodian Labor
# 94
Mongolia :
129,000,000 $
2003
Mongolian Labor
# 95
Romania :
124,000,000 $
2003
Romanian Labor
# 96
Hong Kong :
120,000,000 $
2003
Hong Kong Labor
# 97
Lithuania :
115,000,000 $
2003
Lithuanian Labor
# 98
Barbados :
114,000,000 $
2003
Barbadian Labor
# 99
Guinea :
111,000,000 $
2003
Guinean Labor
# 100
Guyana :
99,000,000 $
2003
Guyanese Labor
# 101
Iceland :
96,000,000 $
2003
Icelandic Labor
# 102
Panama :
94,000,000 $
2003
Panamanian Labor
# 103
Cape Verde :
92,000,000 $
2003
Cape Verdean Labor
# 104
Swaziland :
88,000,000 $
2003
Swazi Labor
# 105
Trinidad and Tobago :
87,000,000 $
2003
Tobagonian Labor
# 106
Burma :
85,300,000 $
2003
Burmese Labor
# 107
Cyprus :
83,000,000 $
2003
Cypriot Labor
# 108
Kyrgyzstan :
78,000,000 $
2003
Kyrgyzstani Labor
# 109
Mozambique :
70,000,000 $
2003
Mozambican Labor
# 110
Tonga :
66,000,000 $
2003
Tongan Labor
# 111
Ghana :
65,000,000 $
2003
Ghanaian Labor
# 112
Gambia, The :
65,000,000 $
2003
Gambian Labor
# 113
Uruguay :
62,000,000 $
2003
Uruguayan Labor
# 114
Benin :
55,400,000 $
2003
Beninese Labor
# 115
Estonia :
51,000,000 $
2003
Estonian Labor
# 116
Burkina Faso :
50,000,000 $
2003
Burkinabe Labor
# 117
Ethiopia :
46,500,000 $
2003
Ethiopian Labor
# 118
Oman :
39,000,000 $
2003
Omani Labor
# 119
Botswana :
39,000,000 $
2003
Motswana -Batswana Labor
# 120
Belize :
34,000,000 $
2003
Belizean Labor
# 121
Malta :
27,000,000 $
2003
Maltese Labor
# 122
Sierra Leone :
26,000,000 $
2003
Sierra Leonean Labor
# 123
Niger :
25,500,000 $
2003
Nigerien Labor
# 124
Fiji :
24,000,000 $
2003
Fijian Labor
# 125
Suriname :
23,000,000 $
2003
Surinamese Labor
# 126
Grenada :
23,000,000 $
2003
Grenadian Labor
# 127
Guinea-Bissau :
23,000,000 $
2003
Guinean Labor
# 128
Venezuela :
21,000,000 $
2003
Venezuelan Labor
# 129
Congo, Republic of the :
13,000,000 $
2003
Congolese Labor
# 130
Chile :
13,000,000 $
2003
Chilean Labor
# 131
Papua New Guinea :
13,000,000 $
2003
Papua New Guinean Labor
# 132
Comoros :
12,000,000 $
2003
Comoran Labor
# 133
Namibia :
12,000,000 $
2003
Namibian Labor
# 134
Cameroon :
11,000,000 $
2003
Cameroonian Labor
# 135
Aruba :
11,000,000 $
2003
Aruban Labor
# 136
Madagascar :
10,000,000 $
2003
Malagasy Labor
# 137
Tanzania :
9,100,000 $
2003
Tanzanian Labor
# 138
Rwanda :
9,000,000 $
2003
Rwandan Labor
# 139
Vanuatu :
9,000,000 $
2003
- Labor
# 140
Netherlands Antilles :
9,000,000 $
2003
Dutch Antillean Labor
# 141
Antigua and Barbuda :
8,000,000 $
2003
Barbudan Labor
# 142
Libya :
8,000,000 $
2003
Libyan Labor
# 143
Kiribati :
7,000,000 $
2003
- Labor
# 144
Gabon :
6,000,000 $
2003
Gabonese Labor
# 145
Seychelles :
5,000,000 $
2003
Seychellois Labor
# 146
Dominica :
4,000,000 $
2003
Dominican Labor
# 147
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
4,000,000 $
2003
Saint Vincentian Labor
# 148
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
3,000,000 $
2003
Nevisian Labor
# 149
Saint Lucia :
2,000,000 $
2003
Saint Lucian Labor
# 150
Solomon Islands :
2,000,000 $
2003
Solomon Islander Labor
# 151
Mauritania :
2,000,000 $
2003
Mauritanian Labor
# 152
Maldives :
2,000,000 $
2003
Maldivian Labor
# 153
Malawi :
1,000,000 $
2003
Malawian Labor
# 154
Laos :
1,000,000 $
2003
Lao Labor
# 155
Samoa :
1,000,000 $
2003
Samoan Labor
# 156
São Tomé and Príncipe :
1,000,000 $
2003
Sao Tomean Labor
Total :
204,089,671,400 $
Weighted average:
1,308,267,124.4 $
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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