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Human Development Report 2009

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

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway 130
2 Australia 186
3 Iceland 137
4 Canada ..
5 Ireland 135
6 Netherlands 155
7 Sweden 85
8 France 223
9 Switzerland 272
10 Japan 12
11 Luxembourg 3,355
12 Finland 146
13 United States 10
14 Austria 352
15 Spain 241
16 Denmark 182
17 Belgium 819
18 Italy 54
19 Liechtenstein ..
20 New Zealand 155
21 United Kingdom 135
22 Germany 104
23 Singapore ..
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 48
25 Greece 223
26 Korea (Republic of) 23
27 Israel 150
28 Andorra ..
29 Slovenia 142
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Kuwait ..
32 Cyprus 201
33 Qatar ..
34 Portugal 371
35 United Arab Emirates ..
36 Czech Republic 131
37 Barbados 476
38 Malta 99
39 Bahrain ..
40 Estonia 319
41 Poland 276
42 Slovakia 275
43 Hungary 41
44 Chile (.)
45 Croatia 306
46 Lithuania 421
47 Antigua and Barbuda 276
48 Latvia 242
49 Argentina 15
50 Uruguay 29
51 Cuba ..
52 Bahamas ..
53 Mexico 255
54 Costa Rica 142
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 3
56 Oman 15
57 Seychelles 129
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 5
59 Saudi Arabia ..
60 Panama 54
61 Bulgaria 273
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 739
63 Romania 398
64 Trinidad and Tobago 69
65 Montenegro ..
66 Malaysia 64
67 Serbia ..
68 Belarus 37
69 Saint Lucia 188
70 Albania 336
71 Russian Federation 29
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 131
73 Dominica 385
74 Grenada 524
75 Brazil 23
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 640
77 Colombia 98
78 Peru 76
79 Turkey 16
80 Ecuador 232
81 Mauritius 170
82 Kazakhstan 14
83 Lebanon 1,407
84 Armenia 282
85 Ukraine 97
86 Azerbaijan 152
87 Thailand 26
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 16
89 Georgia 158
90 Dominican Republic 350
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 254
92 China 25
93 Belize 260
94 Samoa 640
95 Maldives 10
96 Jordan 580
97 Suriname 305
98 Tunisia 166
99 Tonga 992
100 Jamaica 790
101 Paraguay 77
102 Sri Lanka 131
103 Gabon 8
104 Algeria 63
105 Philippines 185
106 El Salvador 541
107 Syrian Arab Republic 41
108 Fiji 197
109 Turkmenistan ..
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 149
111 Indonesia 27
112 Honduras 369
113 Bolivia 97
114 Guyana 377
115 Mongolia 74
116 Viet Nam 63
117 Moldova 395
118 Equatorial Guinea ..
119 Uzbekistan ..
120 Kyrgyzstan 134
121 Cape Verde 262
122 Guatemala 319
123 Egypt 101
124 Nicaragua 132
125 Botswana 75
126 Vanuatu 22
127 Tajikistan 251
128 Namibia 8
129 South Africa 17
130 Morocco 216
131 Sao Tome and Principe 13
132 Bhutan ..
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic (.)
134 India 30
135 Solomon Islands 41
136 Congo 4
137 Cambodia 24
138 Myanmar 3
139 Comoros 14
140 Yemen 57
141 Pakistan 37
142 Swaziland 86
143 Angola ..
144 Nepal 61
145 Madagascar 1
146 Bangladesh 41
147 Kenya 42
148 Papua New Guinea 2
149 Haiti 127
150 Sudan 46
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) (.)
152 Ghana 5
153 Cameroon 9
154 Mauritania 1
155 Djibouti 34
156 Lesotho 221
157 Uganda 27
158 Nigeria 62
159 Togo 35
160 Malawi (.)
161 Benin 25
162 Timor-Leste ..
163 Côte d'Ivoire 9
164 Zambia 5
165 Eritrea ..
166 Senegal 75
167 Rwanda 5
168 Gambia 28
169 Liberia 17
170 Guinea 16
171 Ethiopia 4
172 Mozambique 5
173 Guinea-Bissau 17
174 Burundi (.)
175 Chad ..
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) ..
177 Burkina Faso 3
178 Mali 17
179 Central African Republic ..
180 Sierra Leone 25
181 Afghanistan ..
182 Niger 5
Other UN member states
Iraq ..
Kiribati 74
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 from World Bank (2009b). "Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008: March 2009 Update". Washington DC: World Bank and population data from UN (2009e). "World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision". New York: Department of Social and Economic Affairs.


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