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Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Workers� remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers who are residents of the host country to recipients in their country of origin. They include only transfers made by workers who have been living in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. 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. Source: World Bank, Global Development Finance.

Rank	Country	Value
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (US$) - BOP - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators (2008)
1	Africa	40,118,236,000
2	North Africa	20,294,472,000
3	Sub-Saharan Africa	19,823,764,000
4	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa	19,000,834,000
5	Nigeria	9,980,000,000
6	Egypt	9,476,000,000
7	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria	9,020,834,000
8	Morocco	6,730,472,000
9	Algeria	2,202,000,000
10	Tunisia	1,870,000,000
11	Sudan	1,850,000,000
12	Kenya	1,692,000,000
13	Senegal	1,288,000,000
14	South Africa	822,930,000
15	Uganda	489,110,000
16	Lesotho	443,283,000
17	Ethiopia	357,820,000
18	Mali	343,920,000
19	Benin	271,000,000
20	Togo	228,973,000
21	Ivory Coast	215,000,000
22	Mauritius	215,000,000
23	Cameroon	167,441,000
24	Guinea	150,720,000
25	Sierra Leone	150,000,000
26	Botswana	148,000,000
27	Cape Verde	138,857,000
28	Ghana	128,000,000
29	Mozambique	115,750,000
30	Swaziland	100,450,000
31	Niger	78,108,000
32	Liberia	69,000,000
33	Gambia	64,000,000
34	Zambia	59,300,000
35	Rwanda	51,271,000
36	Burkina Faso	50,000,000
37	Guinea-Bissau	30,000,000
38	Djibouti	28,640,000
39	Namibia	16,157,000
40	Libya	16,000,000
41	Tanzania	15,000,000
42	Republic of the Congo	14,814,000
43	Comoros	12,000,000
44	Seychelles	12,000,000
45	Gabon	11,030,000
46	Madagascar	11,000,000
47	Mauritania	2,000,000
48	Sao Tome and Principe	2,000,000
49	Malawi	1,000,000
50	Burundi	190,000

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