Personal remittances received by country, 2024, European Union (27 countries)

Money and goods sent home by migrant workers and other residents abroad, plus compensation of non-resident workers, as a percentage of GDP.

27 places ranked for 2024. Highest: Croatia (7.2%). Lowest: Malta (0.1%). The median is 1.2%.

Unit: % of GDP Source: World Bank Trend, map and download

Members since the United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020. About this group

Highest 10

  1. 1. Croatia 7.2%
  2. 2. Latvia 3.0%
  3. 3. Luxembourg 2.7%
  4. 4. Hungary 2.5%
  5. 5. Romania 2.5%
  6. 6. Bulgaria 2.3%
  7. 7. Belgium 2.3%
  8. 8. Slovakia 2.1%
  9. 9. Cyprus 1.8%
  10. 10. Czechia 1.3%

Lowest 10

  1. 27. Malta 0.1%
  2. 26. Ireland 0.1%
  3. 25. Greece 0.2%
  4. 24. Finland 0.3%
  5. 23. Spain 0.4%
  6. 22. Denmark 0.4%
  7. 21. Netherlands 0.4%
  8. 20. Germany 0.5%
  9. 19. Italy 0.5%
  10. 18. Austria 0.7%

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

Full ranking

Personal remittances received by country, 2024, European Union (27 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Croatia 7.2% 2024
2 Latvia 3.0% 2024
3 Luxembourg 2.7% 2024
4 Hungary 2.5% 2024
5 Romania 2.5% 2024
6 Bulgaria 2.3% 2024
7 Belgium 2.3% 2024
8 Slovakia 2.1% 2024
9 Cyprus 1.8% 2024
10 Czechia 1.3% 2024
11 France 1.3% 2024
12 Slovenia 1.2% 2024
13 Lithuania 1.2% 2024
14 Estonia 1.2% 2024
15 Poland 0.9% 2024
16 Sweden 0.8% 2024
17 Portugal 0.7% 2024
18 Austria 0.7% 2024
19 Italy 0.5% 2024
20 Germany 0.5% 2024
21 Netherlands 0.4% 2024
22 Denmark 0.4% 2024
23 Spain 0.4% 2024
24 Finland 0.3% 2024
25 Greece 0.2% 2024
26 Ireland 0.1% 2024
27 Malta 0.1% 2024

Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.

How this ranking works

Every country is ranked on its value for 2024, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2024 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.

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