The money that migrants send home is very important
not only to their families but also to their country's balance of payments.
For many countries remittances represent a significant
proportion of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
though the country with the highest remittances per capita is Jamaica.
The following table is derived from IMF
statistics.
Table 5. — Developing country remittance receivers,
2001
2001 $m
% GDP
per capita
1
Mexico
9,920
2%
100
2
India *
9,119
2%
9
3
Philippines
6,325
8%
84
4
Morocco
3,234
10%
108
5
Egypt
2,876
3%
42
6
Turkey
2,786
1%
42
7
Bangladesh
2,100
4%
15
8
Dominican Republic
1,960
10%
233
9
El Salvador
1,899
14%
301
10
Jordan
1,818
22%
371
11
Colombia
1,576
2%
37
12
Pakistan
1,458
2%
10
13
Ecuador
1,414
10%
112
14
Yemen.
1,277
15%
70
15
Thailand
1,252
1%
20
16
Sri Lanka
1,122
7%
59
17
Brazil
1,105
0%
6
18
Indonesia
1,046
1%
5
19
Tunisia
906
5%
95
20
Jamaica
868
12%
334
21
Poland
867
1%
22
22
Sudan
737
6%
24
23
Peru
716
1%
28
24
Albania
699
18%
225
25
Croatia
662
3%
141
26
Guatemala
601
3%
53
27
Honduras
540
9%
84
28
Nicaragua
336
14%
66
29
Korea
316
0%
7
30
China
273
0%
0
31
Paraguay
252
3%
46
32
Moldova
184
14%
43
33
Lesotho
184
20%
92
34
Slovenia
172
1%
86
35
Latvia
153
2%
64
36
Russia
130
0%
1
37
Nepal
123
2%
5
38
Romania
111
0%
5
39
Myanmar
105
2
40
Bolivia
99
1%
12
41
Armenia
76
4%
20
42
Uganda
74
1%
3
43
Ukraine
56
0%
1
44
Macedonia FYR
52
1%
26
45
Lithuania
50
0%
14
46
Costa Rica
49
0%
12
47
Bulgaria
44
0%
6
48
Hungary
40
0%
4
49
Swaziland
38
3%
42
50
Mongolia
21
2%
8
51
Belarus
16
0%
2
52
Kyrgyz Republic
10
1%
2
53
Estonia
7
0%
5
54
Ethiopia
4
0%
0
55
Panama
3
0%
1
56
Vanuatu
3
2%
15
57
Lao People's Dem. Rep
1
0%
0
Source: IMF Balance of Payments Statistics (2002) and UNDP
Human Development Report (2002).*For India the data are for 2000
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