What we count
Personal transfers received from abroad, primarily money migrants send back to their families.
How much money migrants have sent home this year, what remittances include and how the World Bank compiles the figure.
Personal transfers received from abroad, primarily money migrants send back to their families.
Personal transfers received from abroad, primarily money migrants send back to their families.
The World Bank aggregates national balance-of-payments data into its personal remittances indicator.
Official statistics may miss cash and informal transfers outside banks and licensed services.
The calculation uses the annual value published by World Bank WDI 2025 for 2024. It is the latest value published by this source.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the year.
We distribute the latest published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value804,152,223,5162024 · USD
Average per day2,201,694,007even annual distribution
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
World Bank WDI 2025 reports the latest published value used by the calculation for 2024.
We calculate the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the year. The counter restarts at the beginning of the next calendar year.
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
The source value comes from World Bank WDI 2025 and refers to 2024. We use it because it is the latest value published by this source. The World Bank aggregates national balance-of-payments data into its personal remittances indicator.