New Zealand - Workers' remittances and compensation of employees

Personal remittances, paid (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, paid (current US$) in New Zealand was $874,556,300 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $880,567,500 in 2019 and a minimum value of $52,588,800 in 1972.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1972 $52,588,800
1973 $77,360,290
1974 $109,029,500
1975 $99,722,790
1976 $95,532,960
1977 $98,999,170
1978 $129,610,900
1979 $140,009,900
1980 $150,951,800
1981 $192,109,300
1982 $134,221,700
1983 $131,855,200
1984 $121,539,600
1985 $126,944,200
1986 $171,737,400
1987 $241,905,800
1988 $347,438,800
1989 $352,945,700
1990 $366,592,100
1991 $349,928,300
1992 $310,627,400
1993 $290,843,300
1994 $349,057,500
1995 $427,224,200
1996 $604,967,400
1997 $683,438,800
1998 $436,495,100
1999 $469,204,000
2000 $187,155,200
2001 $215,634,300
2002 $310,921,700
2003 $381,769,900
2004 $457,332,000
2005 $647,307,700
2006 $552,021,800
2007 $622,559,600
2008 $624,258,400
2009 $524,454,000
2010 $533,917,800
2011 $636,205,200
2012 $668,885,100
2013 $716,983,300
2014 $777,100,700
2015 $728,535,200
2016 $790,898,200
2017 $849,237,900
2018 $872,298,900
2019 $880,567,500
2020 $874,556,300

Personal remittances, received (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, received (current US$) in New Zealand was $147,708,400 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $2,039,780,000 in 1996 and a minimum value of $107,568,000 in 1972.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1972 $107,568,000
1973 $156,077,800
1974 $162,146,500
1975 $157,393,800
1976 $127,377,300
1977 $143,645,900
1978 $155,533,100
1979 $207,459,900
1980 $256,152,600
1981 $259,673,500
1982 $294,577,400
1983 $300,758,900
1984 $275,288,900
1985 $256,343,100
1986 $303,651,400
1987 $379,271,800
1988 $491,960,000
1989 $584,966,000
1990 $761,847,600
1991 $651,125,400
1992 $602,392,100
1993 $832,968,300
1994 $1,154,773,000
1995 $1,651,630,000
1996 $2,039,780,000
1997 $1,010,340,000
1998 $259,445,500
1999 $257,530,800
2000 $215,300,400
2001 $218,798,000
2002 $232,521,800
2003 $290,415,900
2004 $322,273,200
2005 $352,035,900
2006 $334,684,300
2007 $383,652,900
2008 $421,363,000
2009 $331,041,400
2010 $370,502,900
2011 $455,316,400
2012 $461,782,600
2013 $459,239,100
2014 $535,105,600
2015 $531,736,300
2016 $528,072,400
2017 $538,592,700
2018 $508,952,400
2019 $462,952,700
2020 $147,708,400

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) in New Zealand was 0.07 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 2.91 in 1996, while its lowest value was 0.07 in 2020.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1972 1.12
1973 1.22
1974 1.16
1975 1.22
1976 0.94
1977 0.93
1978 0.84
1979 1.00
1980 1.10
1981 1.06
1982 1.22
1983 1.24
1984 1.27
1985 1.04
1986 0.99
1987 0.94
1988 1.09
1989 1.33
1990 1.67
1991 1.52
1992 1.45
1993 1.78
1994 2.09
1995 2.58
1996 2.91
1997 1.53
1998 0.46
1999 0.44
2000 0.41
2001 0.41
2002 0.35
2003 0.33
2004 0.31
2005 0.31
2006 0.30
2007 0.28
2008 0.32
2009 0.27
2010 0.25
2011 0.27
2012 0.26
2013 0.24
2014 0.27
2015 0.30
2016 0.28
2017 0.26
2018 0.24
2019 0.22
2020 0.07

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: Balance of payments