Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: 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.

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

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Kyrgyz Republic 31.32 2020
2 Tajikistan 26.69 2020
3 Nepal 24.09 2020
4 Lebanon 20.90 2020
5 Georgia 13.31 2020
6 Yemen 12.04 2016
7 Uzbekistan 11.65 2020
8 Armenia 10.50 2020
9 Pakistan 9.94 2020
10 Philippines 9.66 2020
11 Jordan 8.93 2020
12 Sri Lanka 8.85 2020
13 Timor-Leste 8.17 2020
14 Bangladesh 6.73 2020
15 Vietnam 6.34 2020
16 Cambodia 4.93 2020
17 Mongolia 4.12 2020
18 Afghanistan 3.92 2020
19 Bhutan 3.60 2020
20 Azerbaijan 3.29 2020
21 India 3.13 2020
22 Myanmar 2.82 2020
23 Thailand 1.65 2020
24 Lao PDR 1.21 2020
25 Indonesia 0.91 2020
26 Russia 0.67 2020
27 Iran 0.65 2020
28 Syrian Arab Republic 0.64 2010
29 Korea 0.45 2020
30 Qatar 0.45 2020
31 Malaysia 0.42 2020
32 Iraq 0.39 2020
33 Israel 0.28 2020
34 Kazakhstan 0.22 2020
35 China 0.13 2020
36 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.12 2020
37 Turkey 0.11 2020
38 Japan 0.10 2020
39 Macao SAR, China 0.07 2020
40 Oman 0.05 2020
41 Saudi Arabia 0.04 2020
42 Kuwait 0.02 2020
43 Brunei 0.01 2020
44 Turkmenistan 0.00 2019
45 Singapore 0.00 2019

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Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

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