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Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. Remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers resident in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status, to recipients in their country of origin. Migrants' transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year.

Rank	Country	Value
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP) - Transfers - Current account - Balance of payments - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Tajikistan	49.55
2	Tonga	35.78
3	Moldova	31.38
4	Lesotho	27.04
5	Samoa	25.79
6	Lebanon	24.53
7	Kyrgyzstan	24.36
8	Guyana	24.10
9	Nepal	21.62
10	Honduras	21.50
11	Haiti	19.57
12	Jordan	17.86
13	El Salvador	17.20
14	Jamaica	14.92
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	14.77
16	Nicaragua	12.41
17	Albania	12.16
18	Guatemala	11.44
19	Bangladesh	11.31
20	Philippines	11.17
21	Serbia	11.06
22	Togo	9.81
23	Cape Verde	9.74
24	Senegal	9.70
25	Armenia	8.91
26	Gambia	8.24
27	Vietnam	7.94
28	Dominican Republic	7.81
29	Morocco	7.76
30	Sierra Leone	7.68
31	Sri Lanka	7.27
32	Low income	7.06
33	Guinea-Bissau	6.98
34	Liberia	6.90
35	Bolivia	6.86
36	Kiribati	6.59
37	Belize	5.75
38	Georgia	5.72
39	Kenya	5.57
40	Sudan	5.54
41	Egypt	5.36
42	Yemen	5.31
43	Bulgaria	5.28
44	Ecuador	5.17
45	Least developed countries: UN classification	5.08
46	Uganda	5.05
47	South Asia	4.92
48	Tunisia	4.90
49	Middle East & North Africa	4.83
50	Nigeria	4.82
51	Romania	4.69
52	Barbados	4.56
53	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	4.54
54	India	4.31
55	Pakistan	4.28
56	Macedonia	4.27
57	Grenada	4.27
58	Benin	4.06
59	Mali	3.93
60	Mongolia	3.80
61	Swaziland	3.54
62	Djibouti	3.47
63	Azerbaijan	3.37
64	Fiji	3.37
65	Luxembourg	3.21
66	Ukraine	3.20
67	Solomon Islands	3.17
68	Paraguay	3.15
69	Cambodia	3.14
70	Lithuania	3.08
71	Lower middle income	2.56
72	Mexico	2.42
73	Mauritius	2.31
74	Croatia	2.31
75	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.26
76	Comoros	2.26
77	Belgium	2.07
78	Costa Rica	2.04
79	Low & middle income	2
80	Slovakia	2
81	Colombia	2
82	Poland	1.98
83	Peru	1.89
84	Guinea	1.89
85	Middle income	1.86
86	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1.85
87	Latvia	1.78
88	Estonia	1.70
89	Hungary	1.70
90	Portugal	1.67
91	Syria	1.54
92	Latin America & Caribbean	1.54
93	East Asia & Pacific	1.53
94	Rwanda	1.52
95	Ethiopia	1.51
96	Europe & Central Asia	1.50
97	Niger	1.48
98	Seychelles	1.44
99	Indonesia	1.33
100	Algeria	1.32
101	Dominica	1.28
102	Vanuatu	1.19
103	Upper middle income	1.19
104	Mozambique	1.18
105	Sao Tome and Principe	1.15
106	China	1.12
107	Cyprus	1.12
108	Antigua and Barbuda	1
109	Malaysia	0.87
110	Panama	0.85
111	Botswana	0.85
112	Ivory Coast	0.83
113	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.82
114	Austria	0.78
115	Ghana	0.76
116	Greece	0.75
117	Spain	0.73
118	Belarus	0.73
119	Israel	0.70
120	Thailand	0.70
121	Czech Republic	0.66
122	Burkina Faso	0.63
123	Slovenia	0.63
124	Cameroon	0.62
125	France	0.56
126	Euro area	0.53
127	Zambia	0.48
128	New Zealand	0.48
129	Australia	0.46
130	Switzerland	0.45
131	Trinidad and Tobago	0.45
132	Netherlands	0.38
133	Russia	0.36
134	Uruguay	0.34
135	South Korea	0.33
136	North Korea	0.33
137	Brazil	0.32
138	Burundi	0.31
139	Germany	0.30
140	Finland	0.30
141	South Africa	0.30
142	United Kingdom	0.29
143	St. Lucia	0.27
144	High income	0.26
145	Denmark	0.26
146	High income: OECD	0.25
147	Maldives	0.25
148	Ireland	0.24
149	Iceland	0.21
150	Argentina	0.21
151	Turkey	0.19
152	Sweden	0.17
153	Hong Kong	0.17
154	Papua New Guinea	0.16
155	Namibia	0.16
156	Norway	0.15
157	Kazakhstan	0.14
158	Italy	0.14
159	Republic of the Congo	0.14
160	Madagascar	0.12
161	Angola	0.10
162	Tanzania	0.09
163	Gabon	0.08
164	Mauritania	0.07
165	Suriname	0.07
166	Saudi Arabia	0.05
167	Venezuela	0.04
168	Japan	0.04
169	Malawi	0.02
170	United States	0.02
171	Laos	0.02
172	Libya	0.02
173	Chile	0

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