economic2024

Personal remittances received (% of GDP)

Name: Personal remittances received (% of GDP)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators (IMF balance-of-payments data; World Bank/OECD GDP estimates)
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, remittances, migration, balance-of-payments, gdp, world-bank, bx.trf.pwkr.dt.gd.zs

Compare personal remittances received as a share of GDP across 159 countries in 2024, using World Bank estimates based primarily on IMF data.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators (IMF balance-of-payments data; World Bank/OECD GDP estimates)•159 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

5.0% of GDP

Median: 2.3% of GDP

Countries Covered

159

with available data

Highest

Tajikistan

47.2% of GDP

Lowest

Papua New Guinea

0.0% of GDP

Top 5 Countries

1Tajikistan47.2% of GDP

2Tonga39.2% of GDP

3Nicaragua26.6% of GDP

4Nepal26.0% of GDP

5Honduras25.7% of GDP

By Region

Other7.3% of GDP(86 countries)

North America5.7% of GDP(4 countries)

Africa4.2% of GDP(9 countries)

Asia2.4% of GDP(20 countries)

Europe1.6% of GDP(32 countries)

Key Findings

•The same-year 2024 import contains 159 ISO-mapped countries.
•Values represent incoming personal remittances relative to GDP, not absolute transfer amounts.
•Every imported value was returned by the World Bank API for 2024; this run did not interpolate or fill gaps.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0% of GDP)High (47.2% of GDP)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 5.0% of GDP)

Other (86)

North America (4)

Africa (9)

Asia (20)

Europe (32)

South America (7)

Oceania (1)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Personal remittances received measure personal transfers and compensation of employees coming into an economy, expressed as a percentage of that economy's GDP. This makes the values comparable across economies of very different sizes, but it does not measure the absolute amount of money received.

The World Bank series uses IMF balance-of-payments data as its primary input, supplemented by World Bank estimates and national sources where needed; the GDP denominator comes from World Bank and OECD national-accounts estimates. This run imported only non-null observations explicitly returned for 2024 and did not estimate or fill any country value.

Methodology

World Bank indicator BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS. Personal remittances comprise personal transfers plus compensation of employees under IMF BPM6 concepts, divided by GDP and multiplied by 100. The World Bank identifies IMF balance-of-payments data as the primary source and supplements it with World Bank estimates and national sources; the GDP denominator uses World Bank and OECD estimates. This import retains only non-null 2024 observations for non-aggregate economies that map to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes. No values were estimated, carried forward, mixed across years, or filled by this run.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Tajikistan	47.2% of GDP
2	Tonga	39.2% of GDP
3	Nicaragua	26.6% of GDP
4	Nepal	26.0% of GDP
5	Honduras	25.7% of GDP
6	El Salvador	24.3% of GDP
7	Samoa	24.0% of GDP
8	Marshall Islands	23.5% of GDP
9	Republic of The Gambia	22.0% of GDP
10	Liberia	21.3% of GDP
11	Lesotho	19.9% of GDP
12	Guatemala	19.1% of GDP
13	Kyrgyzstan	17.6% of GDP
14	Haiti	16.9% of GDP
15	Jamaica	16.2% of GDP
16	Uzbekistan	13.7% of GDP
17	Cape Verde	12.3% of GDP
18	Georgia	11.9% of GDP
19	Timor-Leste	11.8% of GDP
20	Moldova, Republic of	10.5% of GDP
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.5% of GDP
22	Montenegro	10.3% of GDP
23	Guinea-Bissau	9.9% of GDP
24	Sao Tome and Principe	9.7% of GDP
25	Pakistan	9.4% of GDP
26	Dominican Republic	9.1% of GDP
27	Nigeria	8.8% of GDP
28	Philippines	8.7% of GDP
29	Zimbabwe	8.5% of GDP
30	Albania	8.4% of GDP
31	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.9% of GDP
32	Burundi	7.8% of GDP
33	Morocco	7.8% of GDP
34	Egypt	7.6% of GDP
35	Jordan	7.6% of GDP
36	Croatia	7.2% of GDP
37	Fiji	7.1% of GDP
38	Sri Lanka	6.7% of GDP
39	Serbia	6.4% of GDP
40	Tunisia	6.3% of GDP
41	Ukraine	6.3% of GDP
42	Bangladesh	6.1% of GDP
43	Cambodia	6.1% of GDP
44	Solomon Islands	6.0% of GDP
45	Dominica	5.7% of GDP
46	Ecuador	5.3% of GDP
47	Armenia	4.9% of GDP
48	Ethiopia	4.8% of GDP
49	Sierra Leone	4.6% of GDP
50	State of Palestine	4.6% of GDP
51	Kiribati	4.3% of GDP
52	Kenya	4.2% of GDP
53	Mali	4.0% of GDP
54	Belize	3.8% of GDP
55	Mexico	3.7% of GDP
56	India	3.7% of GDP
57	Ghana	3.6% of GDP
58	Suriname	3.6% of GDP
59	Grenada	3.6% of GDP
60	Saint Kitts and Nevis	3.5% of GDP
61	Rwanda	3.4% of GDP
62	Niger	3.3% of GDP
63	Bhutan	3.3% of GDP
64	Latvia	3.0% of GDP
65	Colombia	2.8% of GDP
66	The Republic of North Macedonia	2.7% of GDP
67	Luxembourg	2.7% of GDP
68	Uganda	2.7% of GDP
69	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.6% of GDP
70	Burkina Faso	2.6% of GDP
71	Paraguay	2.5% of GDP
72	Hungary	2.5% of GDP
73	Romania	2.5% of GDP
74	Guinea	2.5% of GDP
75	Belarus	2.3% of GDP
76	Bulgaria	2.3% of GDP
77	Bolivia	2.3% of GDP
78	Saint Lucia	2.3% of GDP
79	Madagascar	2.3% of GDP
80	Belgium	2.3% of GDP
81	Mongolia	2.2% of GDP
82	Slovakia	2.1% of GDP
83	Cote d'Ivoire	2.0% of GDP
84	Mauritius	1.9% of GDP
85	Azerbaijan	1.8% of GDP
86	Cyprus	1.8% of GDP
87	Thailand	1.8% of GDP
88	Peru	1.7% of GDP
89	Malawi	1.7% of GDP
90	Lao People's Democratic Republic	1.5% of GDP
91	United Republic of Tanzania	1.4% of GDP
92	Djibouti	1.3% of GDP
93	Nauru	1.3% of GDP
94	Zambia	1.3% of GDP
95	Czech Republic	1.3% of GDP
96	Cameroon	1.3% of GDP
97	Andorra	1.3% of GDP
98	Slovenia	1.2% of GDP
99	Lithuania	1.2% of GDP
100	France	1.2% of GDP
101	Antigua and Barbuda	1.2% of GDP
102	Mozambique	1.2% of GDP
103	Estonia	1.2% of GDP
104	Indonesia	1.1% of GDP
105	Poland	0.9% of GDP
106	Mauritania	0.9% of GDP
107	Trinidad and Tobago	0.8% of GDP
108	Costa Rica	0.7% of GDP
109	Iceland	0.7% of GDP
110	Sweden	0.7% of GDP
111	Namibia	0.7% of GDP
112	Eswatini	0.7% of GDP
113	Algeria	0.7% of GDP
114	Qatar	0.7% of GDP
115	Botswana	0.7% of GDP
116	Austria	0.7% of GDP
117	Panama	0.6% of GDP
118	Portugal	0.6% of GDP
119	Seychelles	0.5% of GDP
120	Italy	0.5% of GDP
121	Germany	0.5% of GDP
122	Bahamas	0.4% of GDP
123	Netherlands	0.4% of GDP
124	South Korea	0.4% of GDP
125	Malaysia	0.4% of GDP
126	Switzerland	0.4% of GDP
127	Spain	0.4% of GDP
128	Denmark	0.4% of GDP
129	United Arab Emirates	0.3% of GDP
130	Macao	0.3% of GDP
131	Finland	0.3% of GDP
132	Iraq	0.2% of GDP
133	Brazil	0.2% of GDP
134	Greece	0.2% of GDP
135	South Africa	0.2% of GDP
136	Norway	0.2% of GDP
137	Israel	0.2% of GDP
138	Uruguay	0.2% of GDP
139	Argentina	0.2% of GDP
140	Cayman Islands	0.1% of GDP
141	People's Republic of China	0.1% of GDP
142	United Kingdom	0.1% of GDP
143	Hong Kong	0.1% of GDP
144	Japan	0.1% of GDP
145	Ireland	0.1% of GDP
146	Australia	0.1% of GDP
147	Russian Federation	0.1% of GDP
148	Kazakhstan	0.1% of GDP
149	Maldives	0.1% of GDP
150	Türkiye	0.1% of GDP
151	Malta	0.1% of GDP
152	Angola	0.0% of GDP
153	Canada	0.0% of GDP
154	Oman	0.0% of GDP
155	Chile	0.0% of GDP
156	United States of America	0.0% of GDP
157	Saudi Arabia	0.0% of GDP
158	Kuwait	0.0% of GDP
159	Papua New Guinea	0.0% of GDP

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (IMF balance-of-payments data; World Bank/OECD GDP estimates) (2024).

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