Personal remittances received by country, 2024, OECD (38 countries)

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

37 places ranked for 2024. Highest: Mexico (3.7%). Lowest: Chile (0.0%). The median is 0.5%.

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

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Highest 10

  1. 1. Mexico 3.7%
  2. 2. Latvia 3.0%
  3. 3. Colombia 2.8%
  4. 4. Luxembourg 2.7%
  5. 5. Hungary 2.5%
  6. 6. Belgium 2.3%
  7. 7. Slovakia 2.1%
  8. 8. Czechia 1.3%
  9. 9. France 1.3%
  10. 10. Slovenia 1.2%

Lowest 10

  1. 37. Chile 0.0%
  2. 36. United States 0.0%
  3. 35. Canada 0.0%
  4. 34. Türkiye 0.1%
  5. 33. Australia 0.1%
  6. 32. Ireland 0.1%
  7. 31. Japan 0.1%
  8. 30. United Kingdom 0.1%
  9. 29. Israel 0.2%
  10. 28. Norway 0.2%

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

Full ranking

Personal remittances received by country, 2024, OECD (38 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Mexico 3.7% 2024
2 Latvia 3.0% 2024
3 Colombia 2.8% 2024
4 Luxembourg 2.7% 2024
5 Hungary 2.5% 2024
6 Belgium 2.3% 2024
7 Slovakia 2.1% 2024
8 Czechia 1.3% 2024
9 France 1.3% 2024
10 Slovenia 1.2% 2024
11 Lithuania 1.2% 2024
12 Estonia 1.2% 2024
13 Poland 0.9% 2024
14 Sweden 0.8% 2024
15 Costa Rica 0.7% 2024
16 Portugal 0.7% 2024
17 Iceland 0.7% 2024
18 Austria 0.7% 2024
19 Italy 0.5% 2024
20 Germany 0.5% 2024
21 South Korea 0.4% 2024
22 Netherlands 0.4% 2024
23 Denmark 0.4% 2024
24 Switzerland 0.4% 2024
25 Spain 0.4% 2024
26 Finland 0.3% 2024
27 Greece 0.2% 2024
28 Norway 0.2% 2024
29 Israel 0.2% 2024
30 United Kingdom 0.1% 2024
31 Japan 0.1% 2024
32 Ireland 0.1% 2024
33 Australia 0.1% 2024
34 Türkiye 0.1% 2024
35 Canada 0.0% 2024
36 United States 0.0% 2024
37 Chile 0.0% 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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