Personal remittances received this year

How much money migrants have sent home this year, what remittances include and how the World Bank compiles the figure.

Continuously calculated
WORLD
$ 499,015,009,935
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What lies behind this number

Personal transfers received from abroad, primarily money migrants send back to their families.

What we count

Personal transfers received from abroad, primarily money migrants send back to their families.

How the source derives it

The World Bank aggregates national balance-of-payments data into its personal remittances indicator.

What one number cannot show

Official statistics may miss cash and informal transfers outside banks and licensed services.

Source value

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.

Annual value804,152,223,516USD
Period
2024
Status
published
Primary data source
World Bank WDI 2025

How the number is calculated

We distribute the latest published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.

Formula usedV(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the year

Annual reference value804,152,223,5162024 · USD

Average per day2,201,694,007even annual distribution

Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated

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Source value

World Bank WDI 2025 reports the latest published value used by the calculation for 2024.

02

Elapsed share

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.

03

Smooth display

The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.

Where the data comes from

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.

Latest published and verified source value
Primary data source

World Bank WDI 2025

Source edition: 2025

Open source
Publisher
World Bank WDI 2025
Data period
2024
Verified
12 August 2026
Coverage
Worldwide
Use
Even time-based calculation