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
1.60775064 1977
2.06074184 1978
1.99359635 1979
1.87005775 1980
1.72337425 1981
1.7646931 1982
2.25520065 1983
2.27048446 1984
2.0273997 1985
1.77763171 1986
2.02175153 1987
2.01993297 1988
1.88222642 1989
2.23252105 1990
2.4685628 1991
2.9809535 1992
2.95079938 1993
2.43799448 1994
2.27536048 1995
2.09322298 1996
2.37787975 1997
2.33775323 1998
2.20496483 1999
2.05352142 2000
2.33166837 2001
2.43169396 2002
2.39358585 2003
2.48915723 2004
3.4074725 2005
3.41746789 2006
3.69695497 2007
3.40199045 2008
3.22881268 2009
3.16234182 2010
3.12643738 2011
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