Table 12: Worker’s remittances received by developing countries, 1995-2002 (billions of dollars)

 

 

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Developing countries

48.1

52.6

62.7

59.5

64.6

64.5

72.3

80.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

East Asia and Pacific

8.3

9.5

14.2

8.3

10.6

10.3

10.4

10.0

China

0.4

1.7

4.6

0.3

0.5

0.8

1.2

-

Indonesia

0.7

0.8

0.7

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.0

-

Malaysia

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.3

0.3

0.3

-

Philippines

5.4

4.9

6.8

5.1

6.9

6.2

6.4

-

Thailand

1.7

1.8

1.7

1.4

1.5

1.7

1.3

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Europe and Central Asia

5.5

6.2

7.1

9.2

8.1

8.7

8.9

10.0

Albania

0.4

0.6

0.3

0.5

0.4

0.6

0.7

-

Croatia

0.5

0.7

0.6

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.7

-

Poland

0.7

0.8

0.8

1.1

0.8

0.8

1.1

-

Russian Federation

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

-

Turkey

3.3

3.5

4.2

5.4

4.5

4.6

2.8

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

12.8

12.8

13.6

14.8

16.9

19.2

22.6

25.0

Brazil

3.0

2.1

1.6

1.2

1.5

1.4

1.5

-

Colombia

0.7

0.6

0.7

0.5

1.3

1.6

1.8

-

Dominican Republic

0.8

1.0

1.1

1.4

1.6

1.8

2.0

-

El Salvador

1.1

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.8

1.9

-

Mexico

4.4

5.0

5.5

6.5

6.6

7.6

9.9

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Middle East and North Africa

8.6

9.1

9.4

10.3

10.5

10.9

13.1

14.0

Egypt, Arab Rep. of

3.2

3.1

3.7

3.4

3.2

2.9

2.9

-

Jordan

1.2

1.5

1.7

1.5

1.7

1.8

2.0

-

Lebanon

-

-

-

1.2

1.4

1.6

2.3

-

Morocco

2.0

2.2

1.9

2.0

1.9

2.2

3.3

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Asia

10.0

12.3

14.6

13.3

15.1

13.5

14.9

16.0

Bangladesh

1.2

1.3

1.5

1.6

1.8

2.0

2.1

-

India

6.2

8.8

10.3

9.5

11.1

9.2

10.0

-

Pakistan

1.7

1.3

1.7

1.2

1.0

1.1

1.5

-

Sri Lanka

0.8

0.8

0.9

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.1

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sub-Saharan Africa

2.7

2.7

3.8

3.6

3.5

2.0

2.4

4.0

Lesotho

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.2

-

Nigeria

0.8

0.9

1.9

1.6

1.3

-

-

-

Senegal

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.2

-

Sudan

0.3

0.2

0.4

0.7

0.7

0.6

0.7

-

Note: e = estimate
         - Not available

Source: World Bank, Global Development Finance 2003 (Washington, DC, 2003) p. 198