Africa | Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP)

Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source
Africa | Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977 1.60775064
1978 2.06074184
1979 1.99359635
1980 1.87005775
1981 1.72337425
1982 1.7646931
1983 2.25520065
1984 2.27048446
1985 2.0273997
1986 1.77763171
1987 2.02175153
1988 2.01993297
1989 1.88222642
1990 2.23252105
1991 2.4685628
1992 2.9809535
1993 2.95079938
1994 2.43799448
1995 2.27536048
1996 2.09322298
1997 2.37787975
1998 2.33775323
1999 2.20496483
2000 2.05352142
2001 2.33166837
2002 2.43169396
2003 2.39358585
2004 2.48915723
2005 3.4074725
2006 3.41746789
2007 3.69695497
2008 3.40199045
2009 3.22881268
2010 3.16234182
2011 3.12643738
2012

Africa | Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP)

Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source