Japan - Workers' remittances and compensation of employees

Personal remittances, paid (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, paid (current US$) in Japan was $8,242,572,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $8,242,572,000 in 2020 and a minimum value of $130,000,000 in 1977.

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. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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

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Year Value
1977 $130,000,000
1978 $160,000,000
1979 $200,000,000
1980 $220,000,000
1981 $240,000,000
1982 $330,000,000
1983 $320,000,000
1984 $290,000,000
1991 $1,298,408,000
1992 $1,371,244,000
1993 $1,574,901,000
1994 $1,582,775,000
1995 $1,820,254,000
1996 $3,035,565,000
1997 $3,118,271,000
1998 $2,913,909,000
1999 $3,032,998,000
2000 $2,530,781,000
2001 $2,345,079,000
2002 $2,678,810,000
2003 $1,504,285,000
2004 $1,212,183,000
2005 $1,149,537,000
2006 $3,332,165,000
2007 $3,639,372,000
2008 $4,548,088,000
2009 $3,932,046,000
2010 $4,365,715,000
2011 $4,536,170,000
2012 $4,042,571,000
2013 $2,872,330,000
2014 $4,214,762,000
2015 $4,000,342,000
2016 $5,066,870,000
2017 $5,282,863,000
2018 $6,150,518,000
2019 $6,827,886,000
2020 $8,242,572,000

Personal remittances, received (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, received (current US$) in Japan was $4,875,181,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $4,875,181,000 in 2020 and a minimum value of $90,000,000 in 1977.

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. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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

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Year Value
1977 $90,000,000
1978 $130,000,000
1979 $160,000,000
1980 $140,000,000
1981 $190,000,000
1982 $210,000,000
1983 $180,000,000
1984 $210,000,000
1991 $508,114,300
1992 $581,996,700
1993 $776,545,000
1994 $874,147,300
1995 $1,150,964,000
1996 $500,165,500
1997 $614,882,000
1998 $553,758,600
1999 $566,473,900
2000 $773,406,700
2001 $1,249,546,000
2002 $1,126,867,000
2003 $811,141,100
2004 $773,574,700
2005 $904,981,200
2006 $1,176,988,000
2007 $1,383,931,000
2008 $1,732,379,000
2009 $1,594,532,000
2010 $1,684,469,000
2011 $2,131,729,000
2012 $2,539,578,000
2013 $2,363,853,000
2014 $3,733,913,000
2015 $3,325,098,000
2016 $3,830,449,000
2017 $4,443,029,000
2018 $4,369,454,000
2019 $4,388,723,000
2020 $4,875,181,000

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) in Japan was 0.096 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 43 years was 0.096 in 2020, while its lowest value was 0.010 in 1996.

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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Year Value
1977 0.012
1978 0.013
1979 0.015
1980 0.013
1981 0.016
1982 0.019
1983 0.014
1984 0.016
1991 0.014
1992 0.015
1993 0.017
1994 0.017
1995 0.021
1996 0.010
1997 0.014
1998 0.014
1999 0.012
2000 0.016
2001 0.029
2002 0.027
2003 0.018
2004 0.016
2005 0.019
2006 0.026
2007 0.030
2008 0.034
2009 0.030
2010 0.029
2011 0.034
2012 0.040
2013 0.045
2014 0.076
2015 0.075
2016 0.077
2017 0.090
2018 0.087
2019 0.085
2020 0.096

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: Balance of payments