Personal remittances received in Laos

Personal remittances received by Laos were equal to 2.6% of GDP in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1984.

Measure: Personal remittances received Unit: % of GDP Data: 1984 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Laos, 2025 2.6% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: 2.2%
World, 2025 0.8% Official aggregate

Personal remittances received in Laos over time

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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Personal remittances received (% of GDP), 2001 to 2025
Period LaosWorld
2025 2.6% 0.8%
2024 2.2% 0.8%
2023 1.8% 0.8%
2022 1.5% 0.8%
2021 1.2% 0.7%
2020 1.2% 0.8%
2019 1.6% 0.7%
2018 1.3% 0.7%
2017 1.4% 0.7%
2016 1.2% 0.7%
2015 1.3% 0.7%
2014 1.4% 0.7%
2013 1.4% 0.7%
2012 2.0% 0.7%
2011 1.3% 0.6%
2010 0.6% 0.6%
2009 0.6% 0.7%
2008 0.3% 0.6%
2007 0.1% 0.6%
2006 0.1% 0.6%
2005 0.0% 0.5%
2004 0.0% 0.5%
2003 0.0% 0.5%
2002 0.0% 0.5%
2001 0.0% 0.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 2.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 1.3%, the figure has changed by +1.3 percentage points.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 0.8%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1984 to 2025 for Laos
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data