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Source: World Bank staff estimates based on the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook 2008. For a discussion of the definition of remittances, see Dilip Ratha, 2003, "Workers' Remittances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance", Global Development Finance 2003, World Bank.

Rank	Country	US$ million
Remittances Inflows - Migration and Remittances (2010)
1	Denmark	952
2	Turkey	950
3	Finland	872
4	Armenia	824
5	Georgia	824
6	Nicaragua	803
7	Sweden	796
8	Uganda	773
9	French Polynesia	771
10	New Zealand	685
11	Argentina	682
12	New Caledonia	659
13	Norway	657
14	Latvia	643
15	Costa Rica	622
16	Ireland	618
17	Paraguay	573
18	Macau	571
19	Lesotho	525
20	Macedonia	414
21	Ethiopia	387
22	Belarus	387
23	Mali	385
24	Hong Kong	369
25	Cambodia	364
26	Estonia	342
27	All developing countries	325
28	Togo	302
29	Middle-income	301
30	Slovenia	297
31	Guyana	280
32	Benin	236
33	Saudi Arabia	233
34	Mauritius	220
35	Lower MICs	220
36	Mongolia	211
37	Panama	198
38	Ivory Coast	177
39	Barbados	161
40	Burma	154
41	Cameroon	148
42	Cyprus	146
43	Cape Verde	144
44	Western Samoa	142
45	Kazakhstan	131
46	Venezuela	129
47	Fiji	128
48	Botswana	124
49	Ghana	119
50	Swaziland	118
51	Mozambique	117
52	High income	114
53	Trinidad and Tobago	109
54	High income OECD	107
55	Uruguay	104
56	Tonga	99
57	Rwanda	91
58	East Asia and Pacific	91
59	Belize	88
60	South Asia	82
61	Upper MICs	80
62	Zambia	71
63	Niger	70
64	Guinea	66
65	Gambia	61
66	Grenada	59
67	Latin America and Caribbean	58
68	Liberia	57
69	India	55
70	China	51
71	Malta	50
72	Sierra Leone	48
73	St. Kitts and Nevis	44
74	Burkina Faso	43
75	Oman	40
76	Europe and Central Asia	36
77	Middle-East and North Africa	35
78	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	33
79	Netherlands Antilles	32
80	St. Lucia	30
81	Djibouti	28
82	Antigua and Barbuda	27
83	Guinea-Bissau	27
84	Iceland	26
85	LDCs (UN-classification)	25
86	Dominica	25
87	Low-income countries	24
88	Mexico	22
89	Philippines	21
90	Sub-Saharan Africa	21
91	Aruba	20
92	Tanzania	17
93	Libya	16
94	France	15
95	Papua New Guinea	14
96	Namibia	14
97	Republic of the Congo	13
98	Seychelles	13
99	Comoros	11
100	Bangladesh	11
101	Germany	11
102	Small States	10
103	Spain	10
104	Belgium	10
105	Gabon	10
106	Madagascar	10
107	Kiribati	9
108	Nigeria	9
109	Pakistan	9
110	Poland	9
111	Lebanon	8
112	Egypt	7
113	Vanuatu	7
114	Vietnam	7
115	United Kingdom	7
116	Indonesia	7
117	High income non-OECD	7
118	Morocco	6
119	Russia	5
120	Chile	5
121	Ukraine	5
122	Fragile States	5
123	Serbia	5
124	Netherlands	4
125	Romania	4
126	Guatemala	4
127	Brazil	4
128	Australia	4
129	Jordan	3
130	Solomon Islands	3
131	Maldives	3
132	Sri Lanka	3
133	Burundi	3
134	El Salvador	3
135	Dominican Republic	3
136	United States	3
137	Italy	3
138	Austria	3
139	Sudan	3
140	Portugal	3
141	Colombia	3
142	Nepal	3
143	Jamaica	2
144	Hungary	2
145	Tajikistan	2
146	Suriname	2
147	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
148	Greece	2
149	Sao Tome and Principe	2
150	Ecuador	2
151	Algeria	2
152	Mauritania	2
153	South Korea	2
154	North Korea	2
155	Honduras	2
156	Switzerland	2
157	Peru	2
158	Albania	1
159	Slovakia	1
160	Azerbaijan	1
161	Czech Republic	1
162	Croatia	1
163	South Africa	1
164	West Bank and Gaza	1
165	Kenya	1
166	Syria	1
167	Japan	1
168	Malawi	1
169	Luxembourg	1
170	Israel	1
171	Lithuania	1
172	Thailand	1
173	Moldova	1
174	Yemen	1
175	Malaysia	1
176	Kyrgyzstan	1
177	Bulgaria	1
178	Iran	1
179	Tunisia	1
180	Haiti	1
181	Bolivia	1
182	Senegal	1
183	Laos	1

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Remittances Inflows - Migration and Remittances

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