Remittances Received by Country 2024

About This Dataset

This chart ranks countries by personal remittances received in 2024, the money sent home by citizens working abroad. Figures are balance of payments data in current US dollars and include both personal transfers and compensation of employees.

✨ AI Insight

India leads with $137.7 billion, more than double second-placed Mexico on $67.6 billion and larger than the bottom six countries combined. India's total exceeds what many nations earn from their largest export industry, making its diaspora one of the country's biggest sources of foreign currency. Asia dominates, supplying India, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China. The most unexpected entries are France on $38.8 billion and Germany on $22.2 billion, wealthy economies that appear because of cross-border workers and large expatriate populations, showing remittances are not solely a developing-world story. Mexico's $67.6 billion flows almost entirely from a single corridor, its workers in the United States.

Source: World Bank (IMF Balance of Payments)

Key Findings

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India leads with 138 in 2024.

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Average value in 2024: 45 · median: 32.

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Gap in 2024: India is 6.2× larger than Nigeria.