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Remittances paid — Afghanistan

Remittances paid in Afghanistan in 2020 — 225,420,606 US$. Ranked 90 in the world out of 180. Since 2008, the indicator has risen by 4.1%.

2020 225M US$ +3.74% vs 2019
World rank 90of 180
Period maximum 789M US$2010
Period minimum 144M US$2017

Trend over time

2008–2020 · US$

Remittances paid — Afghanistan, 2008–20200200M400M600M800M20082010201220142016201820202008: 216,603,836 US$2009: 624,996,677 US$2010: 788,698,417 US$2011: 454,083,462 US$2012: 323,642,538 US$2013: 444,730,790 US$2014: 524,163,479 US$2015: 228,991,809 US$2016: 167,894,464 US$2017: 143,979,106 US$2018: 234,618,701 US$2019: 217,292,318 US$2020: 225,420,606 US$
Change over the period: +8.82M (+4.07%) Average annual rate: 0.33 %

Comparison, 2020

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Afghanistan

Afghanistan 225M US$
World 435B US$
South Asia 8.64B US$
Southern Asia computed 9.05B US$
Low-income countries computed 3.74B US$
Remittances paid — Afghanistan, by year Afghanistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year US$ Change Change, %
2020 225M +8.13M +3.74%
2019 217M −17.33M −7.38%
2018 235M +90.64M +62.95%
2017 144M −23.92M −14.24%
2016 168M −61.1M −26.68%
2015 229M −295M −56.31%
2014 524M +79.43M +17.86%
2013 445M +121M +37.41%
2012 324M −130M −28.73%
2011 454M −335M −42.43%
2010 789M +164M +26.19%
2009 625M +408M +188.54%
2008 217M — —

Southern Asia, 2020

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

IN India 7.01B LK Sri Lanka 1.04B MV Maldives 397M AF Afghanistan 225M PK Pakistan 187M BD Bangladesh 94.83M BT Bhutan 47.98M NP Nepal 44.14M
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About the indicator

Personal remittances sent from a country abroad. This is the mirror side of remittances received, and together the two divide the world into countries that take in labor migrants and countries that send them. The largest senders are the United States and the Gulf states, and for the latter the flow is enormous relative to the size of the economy: incomers make up the majority of those working there.

Important: Remittances sent and received should match at the world level, but they do not: some countries do not record the flow, and part of the transfers goes outside the statistics.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.

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