The following article presents a comprehensive overview of countries ranked by the amount of remittances they receive from abroad. Remittances, defined as monetary transfers made by migrants to their home countries, play a crucial role in global economies and the livelihoods of individuals and families. In some countries, remittances account for more than 30% of the total economic output.
Ranking
Countries by remittances received and remittances received as a percent of GDP according to data by the World Bank.[1][2]
| Country | Remittances received (USD millions) |
Remittances as % of GDP | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
 India |
111,222 | 3.3 | 2022 |
 Mexico |
61,100 | 4.3 | 2022 |
 France |
33,928 | 1.2 | 2022 |
 Pakistan |
29,871 | 7.9 | 2022 |
 Egypt |
28,333 | 5.9 | 2022 |
 China |
26,106 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Bangladesh |
21,504 | 4.7 | 2022 |
 Nigeria |
20,128 | 4.2 | 2022 |
 Germany |
19,288 | 0.5 | 2022 |
 Guatemala |
18,203 | 19.2 | 2022 |
 Uzbekistan |
16,736 | 20.8 | 2022 |
 Ukraine |
16,715 | 10.4 | 2022 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Belgium |
13,438 | 2.3 | 2022 |
 Vietnam |
13,151 | 3.2 | 2022 |
 Morocco |
11,168 | 8.3 | 2022 |
 Italy |
10,530 | 0.5 | 2022 |
 Portugal |
10,296 | 4.1 | 2022 |
 Dominican Republic |
10,278 | 9.0 | 2022 |
 Indonesia |
9,960 | 0.8 | 2022 |
 Colombia |
9,449 | 2.7 | 2022 |
 Nepal |
9,293 | 22.8 | 2022 |
 Philippines |
9,067 | 2.2 | 2022 |
 Thailand |
8,912 | 1.8 | 2022 |
 Romania |
8,660 | 2.9 | 2022 |
 Honduras |
8,485 | 26.8 | 2022 |
 South Korea |
7,825 | 0.5 | 2022 |
 El Salvador |
7,693 | 23.7 | 2022 |
 United States |
7,431 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Lebanon |
6,449 | 27.5 | 2022 |
 Poland |
6,435 | 0.9 | 2022 |
 Serbia |
5,601 | 8.8 | 2022 |
 Croatia |
5,392 | 7.6 | 2022 |
 Japan |
5,384 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Tajikistan |
5,346 | 50.9 | 2022 |
 Jordan |
5,000 | 10.5 | 2022 |
 Brazil |
4,969 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 Ecuador |
4,748 | 4.1 | 2022 |
 Ghana |
4,664 | 6.4 | 2022 |
 Haiti |
4,532 | 22.4 | 2022 |
 Spain |
4,268 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 Czech Republic |
4,153 | 1.4 | 2022 |
 Kenya |
4,060 | 3.6 | 2022 |
 Palestine |
4,049 | 21.2 | 2022 |
 Azerbaijan |
3,950 | 5.0 | 2022 |
 United Kingdom |
3,877 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Georgia |
3,854 | 15.7 | 2022 |
 Sri Lanka |
3,818 | 5.1 | 2022 |
 Yemen |
3,771 | 17.5 | 2022 |
 Peru |
3,708 | 1.5 | 2022 |
 Jamaica |
3,688 | 21.6 | 2022 |
 Hungary |
3,589 | 2.0 | 2022 |
 Russia |
3,300 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Sweden |
3,289 | 0.6 | 2022 |
 Nicaragua |
3,227 | 20.6 | 2022 |
 Kyrgyzstan |
3,225 | 29.5 | 2022 |
 Tunisia |
3,092 | 6.6 | 2022 |
 Zimbabwe |
3,085 | 14.9 | 2022 |
 Austria |
2,935 | 0.6 | 2022 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Switzerland |
2,620 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 Cambodia |
2,616 | 8.7 | 2022 |
 Senegal |
2,500 | 9.0 | 2022 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2,466 | 10.1 | 2022 |
 Netherlands |
2,370 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 Luxembourg |
2,186 | 2.7 | 2022 |
 Slovakia |
2,147 | 1.9 | 2022 |
 Moldova |
2,037 | 14.1 | 2022 |
 Armenia |
2,035 | 10.4 | 2022 |
 Bulgaria |
2,033 | 2.3 | 2022 |
 Myanmar |
1,900 | 3.2 | 2022 |
 Bermuda |
1,800 | 23.8 | 2022 |
 Algeria |
1,760 | 0.9 | 2022 |
 Albania |
1,745 | 9.2 | 2022 |
 Somalia |
1,735 | 21.4 | 2022 |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
1,664 | 2.9 | 2022 |
 Malaysia |
1,620 | 0.4 | 2022 |
 Kosovo |
1,613 | 17.1 | 2022 |
 Sudan |
1,499 | 2.9 | 2022 |
 Belarus |
1,465 | 2.0 | 2022 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Bolivia |
1,459 | 3.4 | 2022 |
 Latvia |
1,333 | 3.2 | 2022 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia |
1,298 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Uganda |
1,270 | 2.8 | 2022 |
 Argentina |
1,267 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 Israel |
1,265 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 Denmark |
1,247 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 South Sudan |
1,187 | 9.5 | 2022 |
 Mali |
1,131 | 6.0 | 2022 |
 Qatar |
1,032 | 0.4 | 2022 |
 South Africa |
873 | 0.2 | 2022 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada |
862 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Montenegro |
830 | 13.6 | 2022 |
 Slovenia |
779 | 1.2 | 2022 |
 Lithuania |
736 | 1.0 | 2022 |
 Tanzania |
698 | 0.9 | 2022 |
 Turkey |
694 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 New Zealand |
677 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 Togo |
650 | 8.2 | 2022 |
 Norway |
629 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Iraq |
624 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 New Caledonia |
621 | 6.2 | 2022 |
 Costa Rica |
621 | 0.9 | 2022 |
 Gambia |
615 | 27.1 | 2022 |
 Greece |
601 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 Finland |
594 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 Paraguay |
592 | 1.4 | 2022 |
 Burkina Faso |
589 | 3.1 | 2022 |
 French Polynesia |
582 | 9.6 | 2022 |
 Lesotho |
576 | 22.5 | 2022 |
 Guyana |
540 | 3.5 | 2022 |
 Guinea |
527 | 2.5 | 2022 |
 Cyprus |
520 | 1.8 | 2022 |
 Panama |
519 | 0.7 | 2022 |
 Ethiopia |
510 | 0.4 | 2022 |
 Niger |
500 | 3.6 | 2022 |
 Kazakhstan |
481 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 Rwanda |
474 | 3.6 | 2022 |
 Estonia |
470 | 1.2 | 2022 |
 Fiji |
459 | 9.3 | 2022 |
 North Macedonia |
456 | 3.4 | 2022 |
 Madagascar |
440 | 2.9 | 2022 |
 Ireland |
436 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Hong Kong |
414 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Mongolia |
399 | 2.4 | 2022 |
 Cameroon |
365 | 0.8 | 2022 |
 Ivory Coast |
360 | 0.5 | 2022 |
 Afghanistan |
350 | 2.1 | 2022 |
 Liberia |
346 | 8.6 | 2022 |
 Cape Verde |
313 | 13.5 | 2022 |
 Mozambique |
303 | 1.7 | 2022 |
 Saudi Arabia |
287 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Samoa |
280 | 33.6 | 2022 |
 Mauritius |
274 | 2.1 | 2022 |
 Comoros |
260 | 20.9 | 2022 |
 Malawi |
259 | 2.0 | 2022 |
 Zambia |
243 | 0.8 | 2022 |
 Sierra Leone |
232 | 5.8 | 2022 |
 Benin |
231 | 1.3 | 2022 |
 Malta |
226 | 1.3 | 2022 |
 Tonga |
217 | 46.2 | 2022 |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
204 | 0.7 | 2022 |
 Laos |
198 | 1.3 | 2022 |
 Iceland |
193 | 0.7 | 2022 |
 Timor-Leste |
186 | 5.9 | 2022 |
 Guinea-Bissau |
178 | 10.9 | 2022 |
 Faroe Islands |
158 | 4.3 | 2022 |
 Vanuatu |
150 | 15.3 | 2022 |
 Suriname |
148 | 4.1 | 2022 |
 Belize |
142 | 5.0 | 2022 |
 Eswatini |
126 | 2.6 | 2022 |
 Curaçao |
125 | 5.2 | 2022 |
 Uruguay |
125 | 0.2 | 2022 |
 Bhutan |
96 | 2.9 | 2022 |
 Barbados |
85 | 1.5 | 2022 |
 Solomon Islands |
81 | 5.1 | 2022 |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
70 | 7.3 | 2022 |
 Grenada |
69 | 5.5 | 2022 |
 Chile |
69 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Botswana |
68 | 0.3 | 2022 |
 Saint Lucia |
55 | 2.7 | 2022 |
 Djibouti |
55 | 1.6 | 2022 |
 Namibia |
54 | 0.4 | 2022 |
 Dominica |
52 | 8.5 | 2022 |
 Mauritania |
50 | 0.5 | 2022 |
 Sint Maarten |
49 | 3.1 | 2022 |
 Burundi |
48 | 1.6 | 2022 |
 Oman |
39 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Aruba |
38 | 1.1 | 2022 |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
35 | 2.0 | 2022 |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
33 | 3.4 | 2022 |
 Marshall Islands |
30 | 10.7 | 2022 |
 Federated States of Micronesia |
23 | 5.5 | 2022 |
 Kuwait |
22 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 San Marino |
21 | 1.1 | 2022 |
 Gabon |
18 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Macau |
17 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Kiribati |
15 | 6.7 | 2022 |
 Angola |
14 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Seychelles |
11 | 0.7 | 2022 |
 Cayman Islands |
9 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
8 | 1.4 | 2022 |
 Maldives |
5 | 0.1 | 2022 |
 Papua New Guinea |
3 | 0.0 | 2022 |
 Tuvalu |
3 | 4.1 | 2022 |
 Palau |
2 | 1.2 | 2022 |
 Brunei |
1 | 0.0 | 2021 |
| World | 768,848 | 0.8 | 2022 |
References
- ↑ "Personal remittances, received (current US$)". World Bank Open Data. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ↑ "Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)". World Bank Open Data. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
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