Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) - Country Ranking - Asia
Definition: Primary income payments refer to employee compensation paid to nonresident workers and investment income (payments on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments). Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.
See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison
| Rank | Country | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 346,854,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 2 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 179,001,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 3 | Singapore | 173,115,000,000.00 | 2021 |
| 4 | Japan | 97,728,750,000.00 | 2020 |
| 5 | Russia | 79,791,270,000.00 | 2020 |
| 6 | India | 54,643,400,000.00 | 2020 |
| 7 | Indonesia | 38,659,420,000.00 | 2021 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 33,230,360,000.00 | 2021 |
| 9 | Korea | 28,934,300,000.00 | 2021 |
| 10 | Thailand | 23,763,200,000.00 | 2020 |
| 11 | Israel | 23,567,400,000.00 | 2021 |
| 12 | Turkey | 18,504,000,000.00 | 2021 |
| 13 | Kazakhstan | 17,037,870,000.00 | 2020 |
| 14 | Vietnam | 16,245,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 15 | Qatar | 13,530,490,000.00 | 2020 |
| 16 | Philippines | 8,758,163,000.00 | 2021 |
| 17 | Saudi Arabia | 7,897,996,000.00 | 2020 |
| 18 | Oman | 6,119,335,000.00 | 2020 |
| 19 | Pakistan | 5,114,000,000.00 | 2021 |
| 20 | Bahrain | 4,494,415,000.00 | 2018 |
| 21 | Myanmar | 3,895,830,000.00 | 2019 |
| 22 | Kuwait | 3,255,412,000.00 | 2020 |
| 23 | Iraq | 2,757,400,000.00 | 2020 |
| 24 | Bangladesh | 2,751,458,000.00 | 2021 |
| 25 | Lebanon | 2,382,693,000.00 | 2020 |
| 26 | Azerbaijan | 2,311,825,000.00 | 2020 |
| 27 | Sri Lanka | 2,299,534,000.00 | 2020 |
| 28 | Macao SAR, China | 2,119,906,000.00 | 2020 |
| 29 | Cambodia | 1,851,842,000.00 | 2021 |
| 30 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1,826,518,000.00 | 2010 |
| 31 | Uzbekistan | 1,773,768,000.00 | 2020 |
| 32 | Georgia | 1,696,290,000.00 | 2020 |
| 33 | Mongolia | 1,594,727,000.00 | 2020 |
| 34 | Lao PDR | 1,095,315,000.00 | 2020 |
| 35 | Jordan | 1,037,507,000.00 | 2020 |
| 36 | Armenia | 656,229,000.00 | 2020 |
| 37 | Iran | 604,000,000.00 | 2000 |
| 38 | Brunei | 559,795,800.00 | 2020 |
| 39 | Yemen | 380,867,000.00 | 2016 |
| 40 | Kyrgyz Republic | 277,045,200.00 | 2020 |
| 41 | Nepal | 211,451,800.00 | 2021 |
| 42 | Bhutan | 178,039,300.00 | 2020 |
| 43 | Tajikistan | 176,380,900.00 | 2020 |
| 44 | Timor-Leste | 66,995,470.00 | 2020 |
| 45 | Afghanistan | 51,173,780.00 | 2020 |
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Aggregation method: Sum
Periodicity: Annual
General Comments: Note: Data are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) and are only available from 2005 onwards.
