Remittances paid — all countries

Remittances paid — Middle Africa

Remittances paid in Middle Africa in 2015 — 2,369,525,856 US$. Since 1978, the indicator has risen by 1,831.6%.

2015 2.37B US$ −34.7% vs 2014
World rank
Period maximum 3.69B US$2013
Period minimum 123M US$1978

Trend over time

1978–2015 · US$

Remittances paid — Middle Africa, 1978–201501B2B3B4B19781982198619901994199820022006201020141978: 122,674,626 US$1980: 308,337,542 US$1981: 224,039,059 US$1982: 219,357,116 US$1983: 260,417,889 US$1984: 251,966,582 US$1985: 382,377,711 US$1986: 471,044,091 US$1987: 467,766,981 US$1988: 508,651,933 US$1989: 449,600,424 US$1990: 538,674,954 US$1991: 463,648,022 US$1992: 537,294,001 US$1993: 557,885,534 US$1994: 433,832,749 US$2005: 555,665,283 US$2007: 932,442,479 US$2008: 1,095,395,017 US$2009: 1,195,710,254 US$2010: 1,055,283,667 US$2011: 1,751,762,102 US$2012: 3,202,136,227 US$2013: 3,689,624,224 US$2014: 3,628,795,469 US$2015: 2,369,525,856 US$
Change over the period: +2.25B (+1,831.55%) Average annual rate: 8.33 %

Comparison, 2015

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

Middle Africa 2.37B US$
World 380B US$
Remittances paid — Middle Africa, by year Middle Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year US$ Change Change, %
2015 2.37B −1.26B −34.7%
2014 3.63B −60.83M −1.65%
2013 3.69B +487M +15.22%
2012 3.2B +1.45B +82.8%
2011 1.75B +696M +66%
2010 1.06B −140M −11.74%
2009 1.2B +100M +9.16%
2008 1.1B +163M +17.48%
2007 932M
2005 556M
1994 434M −124M −22.24%
1993 558M +20.59M +3.83%
1992 537M +73.65M +15.88%
1991 464M −75.03M −13.93%
1990 539M +89.07M +19.81%
1989 450M −59.05M −11.61%
1988 509M +40.88M +8.74%
1987 468M −3.28M −0.7%
1986 471M +88.67M +23.19%
1985 382M +130M +51.76%
1984 252M −8.45M −3.25%
1983 260M +41.06M +18.72%
1982 219M −4.68M −2.09%
1981 224M −84.3M −27.34%
1980 308M
1978 123M

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.