Africa | Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid (current US$)

Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers resident in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status, to recipients in their country of origin. Migrants' transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source
Africa | Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid (current US$)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 236599899.3
1971 283822326.7
1972 279514373.8
1973 423839386
1974 653045936.874
1975 1083862974.701
1976 1173819493.1314
1977 2491615806.8732
1978 3075552584.8535
1979 3662694397.4919
1980 4661916866.6504
1981 4669777443.0898
1982 4390873348.3141
1983 4942045145.346
1984 3786931505.2017
1985 3195823300.3723
1986 3146219881.6026
1987 3220867287.3819
1988 3204141754.1979
1989 3047166005.2488
1990 3407175510.7115
1991 2976880380.6422
1992 3174409211.3503
1993 2774811484.2681
1994 2537552132.9275
1995 2561560952.2515
1996 2408818480.0962
1997 2737808144.1708
1998 2578170144.4638
1999 2796865703.0407
2000 3044243718.6918
2001 3045875973.2319
2002 3277314350.8898
2003 3580101973.8636
2004 4031436924.0338
2005 4384055117.3148
2006 4682193132.9009
2007 5069700516.2858
2008 5579425661.529
2009 6224839797.6886
2010 6635075657.8051
2011 5716908793.2264
2012

Africa | Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid (current US$)

Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers resident in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status, to recipients in their country of origin. Migrants' transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source