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Human Development Report 2009

EInternational financial flows: remittances, official development assistance and foreign direct investment
Remittance outflows per international migrant (US$)Excel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway 10,588
2 Australia 869
3 Iceland 4,333
4 Canada ..
5 Ireland 4,363
6 Netherlands 4,780
7 Sweden 1,022
8 France 677
9 Switzerland 9,805
10 Japan 1,971
11 Luxembourg 53,446
12 Finland 2,506
13 United States 1,190
14 Austria 2,420
15 Spain 3,075
16 Denmark 7,612
17 Belgium 4,438
18 Italy 4,481
19 Liechtenstein ..
20 New Zealand 1,880
21 United Kingdom 933
22 Germany 1,366
23 Singapore ..
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 127
25 Greece 1,499
26 Korea (Republic of) 7,384
27 Israel 1,041
28 Andorra ..
29 Slovenia 1,236
30 Brunei Darussalam 3,263
31 Kuwait 2,291
32 Cyprus 3,195
33 Qatar ..
34 Portugal 1,717
35 United Arab Emirates ..
36 Czech Republic 5,790
37 Barbados 1,534
38 Malta 5,011
39 Bahrain 5,018
40 Estonia 474
41 Poland 1,818
42 Slovakia 588
43 Hungary 742
44 Chile 25
45 Croatia 129
46 Lithuania 3,424
47 Antigua and Barbuda 113
48 Latvia 100
49 Argentina 315
50 Uruguay 42
51 Cuba ..
52 Bahamas 5,397
53 Mexico ..
54 Costa Rica 616
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 1,234
56 Oman 5,847
57 Seychelles 4,309
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 592
59 Saudi Arabia 2,526
60 Panama 1,476
61 Bulgaria 822
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1,352
63 Romania 2,630
64 Trinidad and Tobago ..
65 Montenegro ..
66 Malaysia 3,895
67 Serbia ..
68 Belarus 92
69 Saint Lucia 488
70 Albania 85
71 Russian Federation 1,467
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 147
73 Dominica 37
74 Grenada 329
75 Brazil 1,396
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,601
77 Colombia 775
78 Peru 3,294
79 Turkey 80
80 Ecuador 726
81 Mauritius 557
82 Kazakhstan 1,720
83 Lebanon 4,332
84 Armenia 749
85 Ukraine 6
86 Azerbaijan 2,395
87 Thailand ..
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) ..
89 Georgia 148
90 Dominican Republic 180
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 702
92 China 7,340
93 Belize 555
94 Samoa 1,422
95 Maldives 30,601
96 Jordan 215
97 Suriname 12,233
98 Tunisia 402
99 Tonga 10,525
100 Jamaica 25,724
101 Paraguay ..
102 Sri Lanka 853
103 Gabon 451
104 Algeria ..
105 Philippines 93
106 El Salvador 1,213
107 Syrian Arab Republic 239
108 Fiji 1,836
109 Turkmenistan ..
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 9
111 Indonesia 10,356
112 Honduras 94
113 Bolivia 621
114 Guyana 54,887
115 Mongolia 8,443
116 Viet Nam ..
117 Moldova 197
118 Equatorial Guinea ..
119 Uzbekistan ..
120 Kyrgyzstan 763
121 Cape Verde 537
122 Guatemala 347
123 Egypt 1,082
124 Nicaragua ..
125 Botswana 1,495
126 Vanuatu 17,274
127 Tajikistan 600
128 Namibia 112
129 South Africa 1,072
130 Morocco 394
131 Sao Tome and Principe 92
132 Bhutan ..
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 20
134 India 277
135 Solomon Islands 854
136 Congo 355
137 Cambodia 517
138 Myanmar 270
139 Comoros ..
140 Yemen 455
141 Pakistan 1
142 Swaziland 180
143 Angola 10,695
144 Nepal 5
145 Madagascar 338
146 Bangladesh 3
147 Kenya 47
148 Papua New Guinea 5,301
149 Haiti 3,208
150 Sudan 3
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 59
152 Ghana 4
153 Cameroon 750
154 Mauritania ..
155 Djibouti 233
156 Lesotho 3,567
157 Uganda 702
158 Nigeria 106
159 Togo 193
160 Malawi 4
161 Benin 383
162 Timor-Leste ..
163 Côte d'Ivoire 8
164 Zambia 451
165 Eritrea ..
166 Senegal 296
167 Rwanda 562
168 Gambia 52
169 Liberia 5
170 Guinea 294
171 Ethiopia 26
172 Mozambique 111
173 Guinea-Bissau 280
174 Burundi 2
175 Chad ..
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) ..
177 Burkina Faso 57
178 Mali 1,234
179 Central African Republic ..
180 Sierra Leone 1,140
181 Afghanistan ..
182 Niger 237
Other UN member states
Iraq 27,538
Kiribati ..
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) ..
Marshall Islands ..
Micronesia (Federated States of) ..
Monaco ..
Nauru ..
Palau ..
San Marino ..
Somalia ..
Tuvalu ..
Zimbabwe ..

Sources :
calculated based on data on remittances and stocks of migrants from World Bank (2009b). "Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008: March 2009 Update". Washington DC: World Bank.
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