List of countries by remittances received

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Remittances are money sent home by migrants to their families. They can help households a lot and, in some countries, make up a large share of the economy.

Top remittance receivers (World Bank data, 2023/2024)
- India — about 137.7 billion USD (about 3.5% of GDP)
- Mexico — about 67.6 billion USD (about 3.7% of GDP)
- Philippines — about 40.3 billion USD (about 8.7% of GDP)
- France — about 36.9 billion USD (about 1.2% of GDP)
- Pakistan — about 34.9 billion USD (about 9.4% of GDP)
- China — about 31.4 billion USD (about 0.2% of GDP)
- Bangladesh — about 30.0 billion USD (about 6.3% of GDP)
- Guatemala — about 21.6 billion USD (about 19.1% of GDP)
- Nigeria — about 21.3 billion USD (about 11.3% of GDP)
- Germany — about 21.2 billion USD (about 0.5% of GDP)

World total
- Global remittances received in 2023/2024: about 740.5 billion USD, roughly 0.7% of world GDP.

Notes
- Figures are from World Bank Open Data and are shown in current US dollars.
- GDP shares help show how big remittances are relative to a country’s economy.
- Some countries have very high shares of GDP from remittances even if their total amounts are smaller (for example Nepal, Lebanon, and Tajikistan in certain years).