Remittances paid — all countries

Remittances paid — Lesotho

Remittances paid in Lesotho in 2025 — 3,117,660 US$. Ranked 93 in the world out of 95. Since 1995, the indicator has fallen by 95.9%.

2025 3.12M US$ +2.5% vs 2024
World rank 93of 95
Period maximum 75.36M US$1995
Period minimum 2.22M US$2017

Trend over time

1995–2025 · US$

Remittances paid — Lesotho, 1995–2025020M40M60M80M199519982001200420072010201320162019202220251995: 75,360,114 US$1996: 60,481,624 US$1997: 56,305,054 US$1998: 55,623,933 US$1999: 34,060,380 US$2000: 10,318,299 US$2001: 9,554,951 US$2002: 7,967,421 US$2003: 10,110,386 US$2004: 11,025,073 US$2017: 2,223,986 US$2018: 3,530,902 US$2019: 3,395,984 US$2020: 2,829,146 US$2021: 3,365,143 US$2022: 3,343,278 US$2023: 3,021,529 US$2024: 3,041,603 US$2025: 3,117,660 US$
Change over the period: −72.24M (−95.86%) Average annual rate: -10.07 %

Comparison, 2025

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

Lesotho 3.12M US$
World 526B US$
Sub-Saharan Africa 4.48B US$
Remittances paid — Lesotho, by year Lesotho All countries CSV XLSX
Year US$ Change Change, %
2025 3.12M +76,057 +2.5%
2024 3.04M +20,074 +0.66%
2023 3.02M −321,749 −9.62%
2022 3.34M −21,865 −0.65%
2021 3.37M +535,997 +18.95%
2020 2.83M −566,839 −16.69%
2019 3.4M −134,917 −3.82%
2018 3.53M +1.31M +58.76%
2017 2.22M
2004 11.03M +914,687 +9.05%
2003 10.11M +2.14M +26.9%
2002 7.97M −1.59M −16.61%
2001 9.55M −763,349 −7.4%
2000 10.32M −23.74M −69.71%
1999 34.06M −21.56M −38.77%
1998 55.62M −681,122 −1.21%
1997 56.31M −4.18M −6.91%
1996 60.48M −14.88M −19.74%
1995 75.36M

Southern Africa, 2025

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

ZA South Africa 1.13B LS Lesotho 3.12M

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.