name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Croatia

country_id: HR

value:
Movement of people, most often through migration, is a significant part of global integration. Migrants contribute to the economies of both their host country and their country of origin. Yet reliable statistics on migration are difficult to collect and are often incomplete, making international comparisons a challenge.

In most developed countries, refugees are admitted for resettlement and are routinely included in population counts by censuses or population registers. Globally, the number of refugees at end 2010 was 10.55 million, including 597,300 people considered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to be in a refugee-like situation; developing countries hosted 8.5 million refugees, or 80 percent of the global refugee population.

Global migration patterns have become increasingly complex in modern times, involving not just refugees, but also millions of economic migrants. But refugees and migrants, even if they often travel in the same way, are fundamentally different, and for that reason are treated very differently under modern international law. Migrants, especially economic migrants, choose to move in order to improve the future prospects of themselves and their families. Refugees have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom. They have no protection from their own state - indeed it is often their own government that is threatening to persecute them. If other countries do not let them in, and do not help them once they are in, then they may be condemning them to death - or to an intolerable life in the shadows, without sustenance and without rights.

value:
Remittance transactions have grown in importance over the past decade. In a number of developing economies, receipts of remittances have become an important and stable source of funds that exceeds receipts from exports of goods and services or from financial inflows on foreign direct investment. But the quality of statistical remittance data is not high. Remittances are a challenge to measure because of their nature. They are heterogeneous with numerous small transactions conducted by individuals through a wide variety of channels: formal channels, such as electronic wire, or through informal channels, such as cash or goods carried across borders. The large number of remittance transactions and the multitude of channels pose challenges to the compilation of comprehensive statistics. The small size of individual transactions means that they often go undetected by typical data source systems, although the aggregate level of transactions may be substantial.

Because of difficulties in obtaining data on informal remittance transactions, the remittance transactions undertaken through informal channels are sometimes not well covered in current balance of payments data. As a result, even though direct measurement of remittances - through transactions reporting or surveys - may be considered preferable if feasible, some countries instead combine different sources and estimation methods to achieve better coverage, by using direct measurements where practical and supplemented estimates where they are not. Model-based approaches are used in some countries as they are flexible. Compilers can design models to fill gaps in data sources or to provide global totals.

However, only reliable input data can lead to sound estimates, regardless of the sophistication of an estimation method or econometric model. Indirect data are converted to remittance estimates using a set of assumptions. These assumptions should be plausible, but it is often not possible to test or verify these assumptions and also the results in practice.

value:
The two main components of personal remittances, "personal transfers" and "compensation of employees", are items in the balance of payments (BPM6) framework. Both of these standard components are recorded in the current account.
"Personal transfers", a new item in the Balance of Payments (BPM6) represents a broader definition of worker remittances. Personal transfers include all current transfers in cash or in kind between resident and nonresident individuals, independent of the source of income of the sender (irrespective of whether the sender receives income from labor, entrepreneurial or property income, social benefits, and any other types of transfers; or disposes assets) and the relationship between the households (irrespective of whether they are related or unrelated individuals).

Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Compensation of employees represents remuneration in return for the labor input to the production process contributed by an individual in an employer-employee relationship with the enterprise. Compensation of employees is recorded gross and includes amounts paid by the employee as taxes or for other purposes in the economy where the work is performed. Compensation of employees has three main components: wages and salaries in cash, wages and salaries in kind, and employers' social contributions.

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Equatorial Guinea

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description: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual(BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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value: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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Basis and definition: The data on remittance flows are based on officially reported data in the IMF Balance of Payments. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Remittances are defined as the sum of two components: (a) “personal transfers” recorded under the “secondary income” category of the current account; (b) “compensation of employees,” which includes wages, salaries, and other benefits of border, seasonal, and any other nonresident workers (such as local staff of embassies) and which are recorded under the “primary income” category of the current account.

Remittances are known to be underestimated significantly in the balance of payments statistics of the IMF. There are a couple of reasons that officially reported data on remittance might not correctly capture the full extent of money transfer activities. First, the above definition does not include transfers through informal channels—such as hand-carries by friends or family, or in-kind remittances of jewelry, clothes, and other consumer goods, or through hawala. These are believed to be significant portions of total remittances in many countries. If and when they are recorded, it is not clear to what extent they reflect actual transfers rather than imports. Second, in many countries, nonresident deposits, although classified under the capital account, may in part reflect workers’ remittances. For example, the nonresidential rupee deposits in India are most likely remittances disguised as deposits—upon maturity, they do not return to the nonresident depositor because the rupee is not convertible into hard currency.

Caveats: There are several caveats relating to some adjustments made to the remittance data presented here. The caveats attached to our remittance data are:

(a) For some countries, data on remittance has been missing over several years. Missing value can significantly affect the result of data analysis of our time series data; thus, we use the Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) and Next Observation Carried Backward (NOCB) methods. These methods replace missing values either with the immediately preceding observed value or the subsequent observed value. These are potentially useful for time series data but may introduce bias if the data isn’t stationary.

(b) For several countries, including China, Portugal, Spain, and Vietnam, the ratio of personal transfers to the current transfer total under the secondary income has been used in the past to estimate personal transfer data since disaggregated current transfer data is unavailable. However, only what’s presented in the IMF BOP will be used (along with historical data).

(c) For Israel and Zimbabwe, the IMF’s BOP data is complemented with the central bank data. For Israel, personal transfer data from the central bank are being used due to their absence in the IMF’s BOP presentation. For Zimbabwe, remittance data have not been reported in the IMF’s BOP since 2020; thus, central bank data are being used from 2021 onwards.

(d) For the current year estimates of remittance flows, high-frequency data from central banks are being used to fill gaps in data. A few dozen central banks report monthly remittance data, mostly consistent with BOP-reported data. The list includes Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Rep., El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Serbia, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine.

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value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

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value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data. Data starting from 2005 are based the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

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value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

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value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (current US$)

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. 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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name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Gibraltar

country_id: GI

value:
Movement of people, most often through migration, is a significant part of global integration. Migrants contribute to the economies of both their host country and their country of origin. Yet reliable statistics on migration are difficult to collect and are often incomplete, making international comparisons a challenge.

In most developed countries, refugees are admitted for resettlement and are routinely included in population counts by censuses or population registers. Globally, the number of refugees at end 2010 was 10.55 million, including 597,300 people considered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to be in a refugee-like situation; developing countries hosted 8.5 million refugees, or 80 percent of the global refugee population.

Global migration patterns have become increasingly complex in modern times, involving not just refugees, but also millions of economic migrants. But refugees and migrants, even if they often travel in the same way, are fundamentally different, and for that reason are treated very differently under modern international law. Migrants, especially economic migrants, choose to move in order to improve the future prospects of themselves and their families. Refugees have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom. They have no protection from their own state - indeed it is often their own government that is threatening to persecute them. If other countries do not let them in, and do not help them once they are in, then they may be condemning them to death - or to an intolerable life in the shadows, without sustenance and without rights.

value:
Remittance transactions have grown in importance over the past decade. In a number of developing economies, receipts of remittances have become an important and stable source of funds that exceeds receipts from exports of goods and services or from financial inflows on foreign direct investment. But the quality of statistical remittance data is not high. Remittances are a challenge to measure because of their nature. They are heterogeneous with numerous small transactions conducted by individuals through a wide variety of channels: formal channels, such as electronic wire, or through informal channels, such as cash or goods carried across borders. The large number of remittance transactions and the multitude of channels pose challenges to the compilation of comprehensive statistics. The small size of individual transactions means that they often go undetected by typical data source systems, although the aggregate level of transactions may be substantial.

Because of difficulties in obtaining data on informal remittance transactions, the remittance transactions undertaken through informal channels are sometimes not well covered in current balance of payments data. As a result, even though direct measurement of remittances - through transactions reporting or surveys - may be considered preferable if feasible, some countries instead combine different sources and estimation methods to achieve better coverage, by using direct measurements where practical and supplemented estimates where they are not. Model-based approaches are used in some countries as they are flexible. Compilers can design models to fill gaps in data sources or to provide global totals.

However, only reliable input data can lead to sound estimates, regardless of the sophistication of an estimation method or econometric model. Indirect data are converted to remittance estimates using a set of assumptions. These assumptions should be plausible, but it is often not possible to test or verify these assumptions and also the results in practice.

value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.

value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual(BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Guinea-Bissau

country_id: GW

value: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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value:
The two main components of personal remittances, "personal transfers" and "compensation of employees", are items in the balance of payments (BPM6) framework. Both of these standard components are recorded in the current account.
"Personal transfers", a new item in the Balance of Payments (BPM6) represents a broader definition of worker remittances. Personal transfers include all current transfers in cash or in kind between resident and nonresident individuals, independent of the source of income of the sender (irrespective of whether the sender receives income from labor, entrepreneurial or property income, social benefits, and any other types of transfers; or disposes assets) and the relationship between the households (irrespective of whether they are related or unrelated individuals).

Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Compensation of employees represents remuneration in return for the labor input to the production process contributed by an individual in an employer-employee relationship with the enterprise. Compensation of employees is recorded gross and includes amounts paid by the employee as taxes or for other purposes in the economy where the work is performed. Compensation of employees has three main components: wages and salaries in cash, wages and salaries in kind, and employers' social contributions.

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Japan

country_id: JP

value: Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Current account: Transfers

value: Sum

value: CC BY-4.0

value:
Basis and definition: The data on remittance flows are based on officially reported data in the IMF Balance of Payments. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Remittances are defined as the sum of two components: (a) “personal transfers” recorded under the “secondary income” category of the current account; (b) “compensation of employees,” which includes wages, salaries, and other benefits of border, seasonal, and any other nonresident workers (such as local staff of embassies) and which are recorded under the “primary income” category of the current account.

Remittances are known to be underestimated significantly in the balance of payments statistics of the IMF. There are a couple of reasons that officially reported data on remittance might not correctly capture the full extent of money transfer activities. First, the above definition does not include transfers through informal channels—such as hand-carries by friends or family, or in-kind remittances of jewelry, clothes, and other consumer goods, or through hawala. These are believed to be significant portions of total remittances in many countries. If and when they are recorded, it is not clear to what extent they reflect actual transfers rather than imports. Second, in many countries, nonresident deposits, although classified under the capital account, may in part reflect workers’ remittances. For example, the nonresidential rupee deposits in India are most likely remittances disguised as deposits—upon maturity, they do not return to the nonresident depositor because the rupee is not convertible into hard currency.

Caveats: There are several caveats relating to some adjustments made to the remittance data presented here. The caveats attached to our remittance data are:

(a) For some countries, data on remittance has been missing over several years. Missing value can significantly affect the result of data analysis of our time series data; thus, we use the Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) and Next Observation Carried Backward (NOCB) methods. These methods replace missing values either with the immediately preceding observed value or the subsequent observed value. These are potentially useful for time series data but may introduce bias if the data isn’t stationary.

(b) For several countries, including China, Portugal, Spain, and Vietnam, the ratio of personal transfers to the current transfer total under the secondary income has been used in the past to estimate personal transfer data since disaggregated current transfer data is unavailable. However, only what’s presented in the IMF BOP will be used (along with historical data).

(c) For Israel and Zimbabwe, the IMF’s BOP data is complemented with the central bank data. For Israel, personal transfer data from the central bank are being used due to their absence in the IMF’s BOP presentation. For Zimbabwe, remittance data have not been reported in the IMF’s BOP since 2020; thus, central bank data are being used from 2021 onwards.

(d) For the current year estimates of remittance flows, high-frequency data from central banks are being used to fill gaps in data. A few dozen central banks report monthly remittance data, mostly consistent with BOP-reported data. The list includes Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Rep., El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Serbia, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Jordan

country_id: JO

value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: Personal transfers and compensation of employees, received (current US$)

value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data. Data starting from 2005 are based the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Libya

country_id: LY

value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: International Debt Statistics

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (current US$)

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. 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.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Lithuania

country_id: LT

value:
Movement of people, most often through migration, is a significant part of global integration. Migrants contribute to the economies of both their host country and their country of origin. Yet reliable statistics on migration are difficult to collect and are often incomplete, making international comparisons a challenge.

In most developed countries, refugees are admitted for resettlement and are routinely included in population counts by censuses or population registers. Globally, the number of refugees at end 2010 was 10.55 million, including 597,300 people considered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to be in a refugee-like situation; developing countries hosted 8.5 million refugees, or 80 percent of the global refugee population.

Global migration patterns have become increasingly complex in modern times, involving not just refugees, but also millions of economic migrants. But refugees and migrants, even if they often travel in the same way, are fundamentally different, and for that reason are treated very differently under modern international law. Migrants, especially economic migrants, choose to move in order to improve the future prospects of themselves and their families. Refugees have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom. They have no protection from their own state - indeed it is often their own government that is threatening to persecute them. If other countries do not let them in, and do not help them once they are in, then they may be condemning them to death - or to an intolerable life in the shadows, without sustenance and without rights.

value:
Remittance transactions have grown in importance over the past decade. In a number of developing economies, receipts of remittances have become an important and stable source of funds that exceeds receipts from exports of goods and services or from financial inflows on foreign direct investment. But the quality of statistical remittance data is not high. Remittances are a challenge to measure because of their nature. They are heterogeneous with numerous small transactions conducted by individuals through a wide variety of channels: formal channels, such as electronic wire, or through informal channels, such as cash or goods carried across borders. The large number of remittance transactions and the multitude of channels pose challenges to the compilation of comprehensive statistics. The small size of individual transactions means that they often go undetected by typical data source systems, although the aggregate level of transactions may be substantial.

Because of difficulties in obtaining data on informal remittance transactions, the remittance transactions undertaken through informal channels are sometimes not well covered in current balance of payments data. As a result, even though direct measurement of remittances - through transactions reporting or surveys - may be considered preferable if feasible, some countries instead combine different sources and estimation methods to achieve better coverage, by using direct measurements where practical and supplemented estimates where they are not. Model-based approaches are used in some countries as they are flexible. Compilers can design models to fill gaps in data sources or to provide global totals.

However, only reliable input data can lead to sound estimates, regardless of the sophistication of an estimation method or econometric model. Indirect data are converted to remittance estimates using a set of assumptions. These assumptions should be plausible, but it is often not possible to test or verify these assumptions and also the results in practice.

value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.

value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual(BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Luxembourg

country_id: LU

value: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

value: Annual

value:
The two main components of personal remittances, "personal transfers" and "compensation of employees", are items in the balance of payments (BPM6) framework. Both of these standard components are recorded in the current account.
"Personal transfers", a new item in the Balance of Payments (BPM6) represents a broader definition of worker remittances. Personal transfers include all current transfers in cash or in kind between resident and nonresident individuals, independent of the source of income of the sender (irrespective of whether the sender receives income from labor, entrepreneurial or property income, social benefits, and any other types of transfers; or disposes assets) and the relationship between the households (irrespective of whether they are related or unrelated individuals).

Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Compensation of employees represents remuneration in return for the labor input to the production process contributed by an individual in an employer-employee relationship with the enterprise. Compensation of employees is recorded gross and includes amounts paid by the employee as taxes or for other purposes in the economy where the work is performed. Compensation of employees has three main components: wages and salaries in cash, wages and salaries in kind, and employers' social contributions.

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Nigeria

country_id: NG

value: Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Current account: Transfers

value: Sum

value: CC BY-4.0

value:
Basis and definition: The data on remittance flows are based on officially reported data in the IMF Balance of Payments. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Remittances are defined as the sum of two components: (a) “personal transfers” recorded under the “secondary income” category of the current account; (b) “compensation of employees,” which includes wages, salaries, and other benefits of border, seasonal, and any other nonresident workers (such as local staff of embassies) and which are recorded under the “primary income” category of the current account.

Remittances are known to be underestimated significantly in the balance of payments statistics of the IMF. There are a couple of reasons that officially reported data on remittance might not correctly capture the full extent of money transfer activities. First, the above definition does not include transfers through informal channels—such as hand-carries by friends or family, or in-kind remittances of jewelry, clothes, and other consumer goods, or through hawala. These are believed to be significant portions of total remittances in many countries. If and when they are recorded, it is not clear to what extent they reflect actual transfers rather than imports. Second, in many countries, nonresident deposits, although classified under the capital account, may in part reflect workers’ remittances. For example, the nonresidential rupee deposits in India are most likely remittances disguised as deposits—upon maturity, they do not return to the nonresident depositor because the rupee is not convertible into hard currency.

Caveats: There are several caveats relating to some adjustments made to the remittance data presented here. The caveats attached to our remittance data are:

(a) For some countries, data on remittance has been missing over several years. Missing value can significantly affect the result of data analysis of our time series data; thus, we use the Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) and Next Observation Carried Backward (NOCB) methods. These methods replace missing values either with the immediately preceding observed value or the subsequent observed value. These are potentially useful for time series data but may introduce bias if the data isn’t stationary.

(b) For several countries, including China, Portugal, Spain, and Vietnam, the ratio of personal transfers to the current transfer total under the secondary income has been used in the past to estimate personal transfer data since disaggregated current transfer data is unavailable. However, only what’s presented in the IMF BOP will be used (along with historical data).

(c) For Israel and Zimbabwe, the IMF’s BOP data is complemented with the central bank data. For Israel, personal transfer data from the central bank are being used due to their absence in the IMF’s BOP presentation. For Zimbabwe, remittance data have not been reported in the IMF’s BOP since 2020; thus, central bank data are being used from 2021 onwards.

(d) For the current year estimates of remittance flows, high-frequency data from central banks are being used to fill gaps in data. A few dozen central banks report monthly remittance data, mostly consistent with BOP-reported data. The list includes Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Rep., El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Serbia, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - North Macedonia

country_id: MK

value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: Personal transfers and compensation of employees, received (current US$)

value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data. Data starting from 2005 are based the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Panama

country_id: PA

value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: International Debt Statistics

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (current US$)

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. 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.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Russian Federation

country_id: RU

value:
Movement of people, most often through migration, is a significant part of global integration. Migrants contribute to the economies of both their host country and their country of origin. Yet reliable statistics on migration are difficult to collect and are often incomplete, making international comparisons a challenge.

In most developed countries, refugees are admitted for resettlement and are routinely included in population counts by censuses or population registers. Globally, the number of refugees at end 2010 was 10.55 million, including 597,300 people considered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to be in a refugee-like situation; developing countries hosted 8.5 million refugees, or 80 percent of the global refugee population.

Global migration patterns have become increasingly complex in modern times, involving not just refugees, but also millions of economic migrants. But refugees and migrants, even if they often travel in the same way, are fundamentally different, and for that reason are treated very differently under modern international law. Migrants, especially economic migrants, choose to move in order to improve the future prospects of themselves and their families. Refugees have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom. They have no protection from their own state - indeed it is often their own government that is threatening to persecute them. If other countries do not let them in, and do not help them once they are in, then they may be condemning them to death - or to an intolerable life in the shadows, without sustenance and without rights.

value:
Remittance transactions have grown in importance over the past decade. In a number of developing economies, receipts of remittances have become an important and stable source of funds that exceeds receipts from exports of goods and services or from financial inflows on foreign direct investment. But the quality of statistical remittance data is not high. Remittances are a challenge to measure because of their nature. They are heterogeneous with numerous small transactions conducted by individuals through a wide variety of channels: formal channels, such as electronic wire, or through informal channels, such as cash or goods carried across borders. The large number of remittance transactions and the multitude of channels pose challenges to the compilation of comprehensive statistics. The small size of individual transactions means that they often go undetected by typical data source systems, although the aggregate level of transactions may be substantial.

Because of difficulties in obtaining data on informal remittance transactions, the remittance transactions undertaken through informal channels are sometimes not well covered in current balance of payments data. As a result, even though direct measurement of remittances - through transactions reporting or surveys - may be considered preferable if feasible, some countries instead combine different sources and estimation methods to achieve better coverage, by using direct measurements where practical and supplemented estimates where they are not. Model-based approaches are used in some countries as they are flexible. Compilers can design models to fill gaps in data sources or to provide global totals.

However, only reliable input data can lead to sound estimates, regardless of the sophistication of an estimation method or econometric model. Indirect data are converted to remittance estimates using a set of assumptions. These assumptions should be plausible, but it is often not possible to test or verify these assumptions and also the results in practice.

value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.

value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual(BPM6): personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - Slovak Republic

country_id: SK

value: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

value: Annual

value:
The two main components of personal remittances, "personal transfers" and "compensation of employees", are items in the balance of payments (BPM6) framework. Both of these standard components are recorded in the current account.
"Personal transfers", a new item in the Balance of Payments (BPM6) represents a broader definition of worker remittances. Personal transfers include all current transfers in cash or in kind between resident and nonresident individuals, independent of the source of income of the sender (irrespective of whether the sender receives income from labor, entrepreneurial or property income, social benefits, and any other types of transfers; or disposes assets) and the relationship between the households (irrespective of whether they are related or unrelated individuals).

Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Compensation of employees represents remuneration in return for the labor input to the production process contributed by an individual in an employer-employee relationship with the enterprise. Compensation of employees is recorded gross and includes amounts paid by the employee as taxes or for other purposes in the economy where the work is performed. Compensation of employees has three main components: wages and salaries in cash, wages and salaries in kind, and employers' social contributions.

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal remittances, received (current US$) - St. Vincent and the Grenadines

country_id: VC

value: Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Current account: Transfers

value: Sum

value: CC BY-4.0

value:
Basis and definition: The data on remittance flows are based on officially reported data in the IMF Balance of Payments. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Each country reports these data according to the IMF Balance of Payments Manual 6. Remittances are defined as the sum of two components: (a) “personal transfers” recorded under the “secondary income” category of the current account; (b) “compensation of employees,” which includes wages, salaries, and other benefits of border, seasonal, and any other nonresident workers (such as local staff of embassies) and which are recorded under the “primary income” category of the current account.

Remittances are known to be underestimated significantly in the balance of payments statistics of the IMF. There are a couple of reasons that officially reported data on remittance might not correctly capture the full extent of money transfer activities. First, the above definition does not include transfers through informal channels—such as hand-carries by friends or family, or in-kind remittances of jewelry, clothes, and other consumer goods, or through hawala. These are believed to be significant portions of total remittances in many countries. If and when they are recorded, it is not clear to what extent they reflect actual transfers rather than imports. Second, in many countries, nonresident deposits, although classified under the capital account, may in part reflect workers’ remittances. For example, the nonresidential rupee deposits in India are most likely remittances disguised as deposits—upon maturity, they do not return to the nonresident depositor because the rupee is not convertible into hard currency.

Caveats: There are several caveats relating to some adjustments made to the remittance data presented here. The caveats attached to our remittance data are:

(a) For some countries, data on remittance has been missing over several years. Missing value can significantly affect the result of data analysis of our time series data; thus, we use the Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) and Next Observation Carried Backward (NOCB) methods. These methods replace missing values either with the immediately preceding observed value or the subsequent observed value. These are potentially useful for time series data but may introduce bias if the data isn’t stationary.

(b) For several countries, including China, Portugal, Spain, and Vietnam, the ratio of personal transfers to the current transfer total under the secondary income has been used in the past to estimate personal transfer data since disaggregated current transfer data is unavailable. However, only what’s presented in the IMF BOP will be used (along with historical data).

(c) For Israel and Zimbabwe, the IMF’s BOP data is complemented with the central bank data. For Israel, personal transfer data from the central bank are being used due to their absence in the IMF’s BOP presentation. For Zimbabwe, remittance data have not been reported in the IMF’s BOP since 2020; thus, central bank data are being used from 2021 onwards.

(d) For the current year estimates of remittance flows, high-frequency data from central banks are being used to fill gaps in data. A few dozen central banks report monthly remittance data, mostly consistent with BOP-reported data. The list includes Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Rep., El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Serbia, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine.


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)

country_id: XE

description: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

value: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

value: Note: Data are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) and are only available from 2005 onwards.

value: Workers' remittances, receipts (BoP, current US$)

value: Workers' remittances are current transfers by migrants who are employed or intend to remain employed for more than a year in another economy in which they are considered residents. Some developing countries classify workers' remittances as a factor income receipt (and thus as a component of GNI). The World Bank adheres to international guidelines in defining GNI, and its classification of workers' remittances may therefore differ from national practices. This item shows receipts by the reporting country. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - IBRD only

country_id: XF

value: Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Data are in current U.S. dollars.


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Low & middle income

country_id: XO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Post-demographic dividend


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - South Asia (IDA & IBRD)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - World


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Afghanistan

country_id: AF


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Albania

country_id: AL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Aruba

country_id: AW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bahrain

country_id: BH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bhutan

country_id: BT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Canada

country_id: CA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Costa Rica

country_id: CR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Croatia

country_id: HR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Equatorial Guinea

country_id: GQ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Faroe Islands

country_id: FO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Finland

country_id: FI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Ghana

country_id: GH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Guam

country_id: GU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Hong Kong SAR, China

country_id: HK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Iceland

country_id: IS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Isle of Man

country_id: IM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Lesotho

country_id: LS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Mexico

country_id: MX


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Mongolia

country_id: MN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Morocco

country_id: MA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Netherlands

country_id: NL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Nigeria

country_id: NG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - North Macedonia

country_id: MK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Pakistan

country_id: PK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Paraguay

country_id: PY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Singapore

country_id: SG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Slovak Republic

country_id: SK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - South Africa

country_id: ZA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Thailand

country_id: TH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Togo

country_id: TG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Turkmenistan

country_id: TM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Uganda

country_id: UG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - United Arab Emirates

country_id: AE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Uruguay

country_id: UY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Venezuela, RB

country_id: VE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Africa Western and Central

country_id: ZI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Arab World


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - IDA total

country_id: XG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Late-demographic dividend


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Low income

country_id: XM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - North America

country_id: XU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Not classified

country_id: XY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cyprus

country_id: CY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Dominica

country_id: DM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Dominican Republic

country_id: DO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Guatemala

country_id: GT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Jamaica

country_id: JM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Lao PDR

country_id: LA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Libya

country_id: LY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Liechtenstein

country_id: LI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Namibia


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Peru

country_id: PE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - San Marino

country_id: SM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Tuvalu

country_id: TV


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Vanuatu

country_id: VU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Zambia

country_id: ZM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Zimbabwe

country_id: ZW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Central Europe and the Baltics


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - East Asia & Pacific


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Pacific island small states


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Algeria

country_id: DZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Argentina

country_id: AR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Armenia

country_id: AM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Azerbaijan

country_id: AZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bahamas, The

country_id: BS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bolivia

country_id: BO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Botswana

country_id: BW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Burundi

country_id: BI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cabo Verde

country_id: CV


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cambodia

country_id: KH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cayman Islands

country_id: KY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Colombia

country_id: CO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Congo, Rep.

country_id: CG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cuba

country_id: CU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Egypt, Arab Rep.

country_id: EG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Georgia

country_id: GE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Greenland

country_id: GL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Guinea

country_id: GN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Haiti

country_id: HT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Iraq

country_id: IQ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Ireland

country_id: IE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Israel

country_id: IL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Kosovo

country_id: XK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Lithuania

country_id: LT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Mauritius

country_id: MU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - New Caledonia

country_id: NC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Nicaragua

country_id: NI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Niger

country_id: NE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Qatar

country_id: QA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Samoa

country_id: WS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Solomon Islands

country_id: SB


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - St. Martin (French part)

country_id: MF


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - United States

country_id: US


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Virgin Islands (U.S.)

country_id: VI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Caribbean small states


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Fragile and conflict affected situations


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - IDA & IBRD total

country_id: ZT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - IDA blend

country_id: XH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - OECD members

country_id: OE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Small states


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sub-Saharan Africa

country_id: ZG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Upper middle income

country_id: XT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Antigua and Barbuda

country_id: AG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Australia

country_id: AU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Belarus

country_id: BY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - British Virgin Islands

country_id: VG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Channel Islands

country_id: JG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Chile

country_id: CL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Curacao

country_id: CW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Czechia

country_id: CZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Denmark

country_id: DK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - France

country_id: FR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Kiribati

country_id: KI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Madagascar

country_id: MG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Micronesia, Fed. Sts.

country_id: FM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Monaco

country_id: MC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sri Lanka

country_id: LK


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Suriname

country_id: SR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Tonga

country_id: TO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Tunisia

country_id: TN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Euro area

country_id: XC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - High income

country_id: XD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Lower middle income

country_id: XN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Middle East & North Africa

country_id: ZQ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Middle East & North Africa (excluding high income)

country_id: XQ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - South Asia


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - American Samoa

country_id: AS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Austria

country_id: AT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Barbados

country_id: BB


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Belgium

country_id: BE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bosnia and Herzegovina

country_id: BA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - China

country_id: CN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Comoros

country_id: KM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Congo, Dem. Rep.

country_id: CD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Germany

country_id: DE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Gibraltar

country_id: GI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Iran, Islamic Rep.

country_id: IR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Liberia

country_id: LR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Luxembourg

country_id: LU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Malawi

country_id: MW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Malaysia

country_id: MY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Maldives

country_id: MV


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Marshall Islands

country_id: MH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Mauritania

country_id: MR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Palau

country_id: PW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Philippines

country_id: PH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Rwanda

country_id: RW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Serbia

country_id: RS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Somalia

country_id: SO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - St. Lucia

country_id: LC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sweden

country_id: SE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Syrian Arab Republic

country_id: SY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Timor-Leste

country_id: TL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Trinidad and Tobago

country_id: TT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - United Kingdom

country_id: GB


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Viet Nam

country_id: VN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - European Union

country_id: EU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - IDA only

country_id: XI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)

country_id: XJ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Middle income

country_id: XP


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bangladesh

country_id: BD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bulgaria

country_id: BG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Burkina Faso

country_id: BF


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Chad

country_id: TD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - El Salvador

country_id: SV


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Estonia

country_id: EE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Eswatini

country_id: SZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Ethiopia

country_id: ET


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - French Polynesia

country_id: PF


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Gambia, The

country_id: GM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Greece

country_id: GR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Honduras

country_id: HN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Hungary

country_id: HU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Italy

country_id: IT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Kazakhstan

country_id: KZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Kyrgyz Republic

country_id: KG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Lebanon

country_id: LB


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Mali

country_id: ML


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Nauru

country_id: NR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Nepal

country_id: NP


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Norway

country_id: NO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Papua New Guinea

country_id: PG


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sao Tome and Principe

country_id: ST


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Seychelles

country_id: SC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sierra Leone

country_id: SL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Spain

country_id: ES


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - St. Vincent and the Grenadines

country_id: VC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sudan

country_id: SD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Tajikistan

country_id: TJ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Turks and Caicos Islands

country_id: TC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Uzbekistan

country_id: UZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Yemen, Rep.

country_id: YE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Africa Eastern and Southern

country_id: ZH


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Least developed countries: UN classification

country_id: XL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Other small states


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Angola

country_id: AO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Bermuda

country_id: BM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cameroon

country_id: CM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Central African Republic

country_id: CF


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Cote d'Ivoire

country_id: CI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Fiji

country_id: FJ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Gabon

country_id: GA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - India

country_id: IN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Korea, Rep.

country_id: KR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Kuwait

country_id: KW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Macao SAR, China

country_id: MO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Northern Mariana Islands

country_id: MP


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Puerto Rico

country_id: PR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Russian Federation

country_id: RU


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Saudi Arabia

country_id: SA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Senegal

country_id: SN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sint Maarten (Dutch part)

country_id: SX


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Slovenia

country_id: SI


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - St. Kitts and Nevis

country_id: KN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Tanzania

country_id: TZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Turkiye

country_id: TR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Ukraine

country_id: UA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - West Bank and Gaza

country_id: PS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Early-demographic dividend


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Europe & Central Asia


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Latin America & Caribbean

country_id: ZJ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Pre-demographic dividend


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)

country_id: ZF


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Andorra

country_id: AD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Belize

country_id: BZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Benin

country_id: BJ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Brazil

country_id: BR


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Brunei Darussalam

country_id: BN


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Djibouti

country_id: DJ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Ecuador

country_id: EC


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Eritrea

country_id: ER


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Grenada

country_id: GD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Guinea-Bissau

country_id: GW


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Guyana

country_id: GY


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Indonesia

country_id: ID


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Japan

country_id: JP


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Jordan

country_id: JO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Kenya

country_id: KE


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Korea, Dem. People's Rep.

country_id: KP


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Latvia

country_id: LV


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Malta

country_id: MT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Moldova

country_id: MD


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Montenegro

country_id: ME


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Mozambique

country_id: MZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Myanmar

country_id: MM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - New Zealand

country_id: NZ


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Oman

country_id: OM


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Panama

country_id: PA


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Poland

country_id: PL


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Portugal

country_id: PT


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Romania

country_id: RO


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - South Sudan

country_id: SS


name: Personal transfers, receipts (BoP, current US$) - Switzerland

country_id: CH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - High income

country_id: XD

description: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees.

value: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

value: Weighted average

value: Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP)

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. 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.


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - IBRD only

country_id: XF

value: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees.

value: Annual

value: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers.


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - OECD members

country_id: OE

value: Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Current account: Transfers


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - American Samoa

country_id: AS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bangladesh

country_id: BD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Barbados

country_id: BB


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Ghana

country_id: GH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Honduras

country_id: HN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Iceland

country_id: IS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Iran, Islamic Rep.

country_id: IR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Korea, Rep.

country_id: KR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Lesotho

country_id: LS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Liberia

country_id: LR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Marshall Islands

country_id: MH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Mauritania

country_id: MR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Moldova

country_id: MD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Mozambique

country_id: MZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Paraguay

country_id: PY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Russian Federation

country_id: RU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Singapore

country_id: SG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - South Sudan

country_id: SS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Spain

country_id: ES


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Togo

country_id: TG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Tunisia

country_id: TN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Ukraine

country_id: UA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Vanuatu

country_id: VU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Virgin Islands (U.S.)

country_id: VI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Zambia

country_id: ZM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)

country_id: XE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Late-demographic dividend


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)

country_id: ZF


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - World


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Angola

country_id: AO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Armenia

country_id: AM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Belarus

country_id: BY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bermuda

country_id: BM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Burundi

country_id: BI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Comoros

country_id: KM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Curacao

country_id: CW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Denmark

country_id: DK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Djibouti

country_id: DJ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Eswatini

country_id: SZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - India

country_id: IN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Lao PDR

country_id: LA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Malawi

country_id: MW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Mali

country_id: ML


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Monaco

country_id: MC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Panama

country_id: PA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Tanzania

country_id: TZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - United States

country_id: US


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Viet Nam

country_id: VN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - East Asia & Pacific


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Pacific island small states


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Albania

country_id: AL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Argentina

country_id: AR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Aruba

country_id: AW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Burkina Faso

country_id: BF


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Canada

country_id: CA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cayman Islands

country_id: KY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - El Salvador

country_id: SV


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Equatorial Guinea

country_id: GQ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Finland

country_id: FI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Gambia, The

country_id: GM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Gibraltar

country_id: GI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Greece

country_id: GR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Japan

country_id: JP


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Jordan

country_id: JO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Liechtenstein

country_id: LI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Lithuania

country_id: LT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Mexico

country_id: MX


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Montenegro

country_id: ME


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Myanmar

country_id: MM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Nauru

country_id: NR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Pakistan

country_id: PK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Papua New Guinea

country_id: PG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sierra Leone

country_id: SL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Somalia

country_id: SO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - St. Martin (French part)

country_id: MF


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Suriname

country_id: SR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Tajikistan

country_id: TJ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Turkmenistan

country_id: TM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Zimbabwe

country_id: ZW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Arab World


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - IDA blend

country_id: XH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Low income

country_id: XM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Middle East & North Africa (excluding high income)

country_id: XQ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Middle income

country_id: XP


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Other small states


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Pre-demographic dividend


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - South Asia


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sub-Saharan Africa

country_id: ZG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Afghanistan

country_id: AF


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Andorra

country_id: AD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Belgium

country_id: BE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Benin

country_id: BJ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Georgia

country_id: GE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Guatemala

country_id: GT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Ireland

country_id: IE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Kazakhstan

country_id: KZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Kyrgyz Republic

country_id: KG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Malaysia

country_id: MY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Micronesia, Fed. Sts.

country_id: FM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Morocco

country_id: MA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Nigeria

country_id: NG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Northern Mariana Islands

country_id: MP


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Oman

country_id: OM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Portugal

country_id: PT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Qatar

country_id: QA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Rwanda

country_id: RW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - San Marino

country_id: SM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sint Maarten (Dutch part)

country_id: SX


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - St. Kitts and Nevis

country_id: KN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - St. Vincent and the Grenadines

country_id: VC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Syrian Arab Republic

country_id: SY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Turks and Caicos Islands

country_id: TC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Africa Eastern and Southern

country_id: ZH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Africa Western and Central

country_id: ZI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Europe & Central Asia


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Fragile and conflict affected situations


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - IDA only

country_id: XI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - IDA total

country_id: XG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Least developed countries: UN classification

country_id: XL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Lower middle income

country_id: XN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Not classified

country_id: XY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Small states


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - South Asia (IDA & IBRD)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Australia

country_id: AU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bhutan

country_id: BT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Central African Republic

country_id: CF


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Chad

country_id: TD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Channel Islands

country_id: JG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Chile

country_id: CL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Ecuador

country_id: EC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Grenada

country_id: GD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Guinea

country_id: GN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Guyana

country_id: GY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Iraq

country_id: IQ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Israel

country_id: IL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Kiribati

country_id: KI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Libya

country_id: LY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Luxembourg

country_id: LU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Malta

country_id: MT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - New Zealand

country_id: NZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Palau

country_id: PW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Philippines

country_id: PH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Poland

country_id: PL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Saudi Arabia

country_id: SA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Uganda

country_id: UG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Central Europe and the Baltics


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - European Union

country_id: EU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Upper middle income

country_id: XT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Antigua and Barbuda

country_id: AG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bahamas, The

country_id: BS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Belize

country_id: BZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Botswana

country_id: BW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cambodia

country_id: KH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cameroon

country_id: CM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Congo, Dem. Rep.

country_id: CD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Costa Rica

country_id: CR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Czechia

country_id: CZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Estonia

country_id: EE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Fiji

country_id: FJ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - French Polynesia

country_id: PF


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Germany

country_id: DE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Mauritius

country_id: MU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Namibia


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - New Caledonia

country_id: NC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Serbia

country_id: RS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sudan

country_id: SD


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sweden

country_id: SE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Timor-Leste

country_id: TL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Tonga

country_id: TO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Trinidad and Tobago

country_id: TT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Uzbekistan

country_id: UZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Euro area

country_id: XC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries)


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - IDA & IBRD total

country_id: ZT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Latin America & Caribbean

country_id: ZJ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Low & middle income

country_id: XO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Middle East & North Africa

country_id: ZQ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - North America

country_id: XU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Algeria

country_id: DZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bosnia and Herzegovina

country_id: BA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Brazil

country_id: BR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Brunei Darussalam

country_id: BN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cabo Verde

country_id: CV


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Colombia

country_id: CO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cote d'Ivoire

country_id: CI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Croatia

country_id: HR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cuba

country_id: CU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Dominica

country_id: DM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Egypt, Arab Rep.

country_id: EG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Faroe Islands

country_id: FO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Greenland

country_id: GL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Haiti

country_id: HT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Hong Kong SAR, China

country_id: HK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Hungary

country_id: HU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Isle of Man

country_id: IM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Jamaica

country_id: JM


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Kenya

country_id: KE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Korea, Dem. People's Rep.

country_id: KP


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Kosovo

country_id: XK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Latvia

country_id: LV


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Netherlands

country_id: NL


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Nicaragua

country_id: NI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - North Macedonia

country_id: MK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Norway

country_id: NO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Peru

country_id: PE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Samoa

country_id: WS


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sao Tome and Principe

country_id: ST


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Seychelles

country_id: SC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - St. Lucia

country_id: LC


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Switzerland

country_id: CH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Caribbean small states


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Early-demographic dividend


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)

country_id: XJ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Post-demographic dividend


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Austria

country_id: AT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Azerbaijan

country_id: AZ


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bahrain

country_id: BH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bolivia

country_id: BO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - British Virgin Islands

country_id: VG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Bulgaria

country_id: BG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - China

country_id: CN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Congo, Rep.

country_id: CG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Cyprus

country_id: CY


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Dominican Republic

country_id: DO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Eritrea

country_id: ER


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Ethiopia

country_id: ET


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - France

country_id: FR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Gabon

country_id: GA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Guam

country_id: GU


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Guinea-Bissau

country_id: GW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Indonesia

country_id: ID


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Italy

country_id: IT


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Kuwait

country_id: KW


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Lebanon

country_id: LB


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Macao SAR, China

country_id: MO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Madagascar

country_id: MG


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Maldives

country_id: MV


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Mongolia

country_id: MN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Nepal

country_id: NP


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Niger

country_id: NE


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Puerto Rico

country_id: PR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Romania

country_id: RO


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Senegal

country_id: SN


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Slovak Republic

country_id: SK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Slovenia

country_id: SI


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Solomon Islands

country_id: SB


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - South Africa

country_id: ZA


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Sri Lanka

country_id: LK


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Thailand

country_id: TH


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Turkiye

country_id: TR


name: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Tuvalu

country_id: TV