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Human Development Report 2009

EInternational financial flows: remittances, official development assistance and foreign direct investment
Percentage of remittance inflows by continent of origin - AsiaExcel

HDI Rank Country
1 Norway 4.2
2 Australia 6.7
3 Iceland 0.5
4 Canada ..
5 Ireland 0.2
6 Netherlands 3.4
7 Sweden 3.2
8 France 3.8
9 Switzerland 3.2
10 Japan 8.8
11 Luxembourg 0.2
12 Finland 1.0
13 United States 12.0
14 Austria 3.7
15 Spain 0.3
16 Denmark 2.6
17 Belgium 2.4
18 Italy 0.2
19 Liechtenstein ..
20 New Zealand 2.1
21 United Kingdom 4.4
22 Germany 12.1
23 Singapore ..
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 2.5
25 Greece 8.2
26 Korea (Republic of) 36.1
27 Israel 70.0
28 Andorra ..
29 Slovenia 0.1
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Kuwait ..
32 Cyprus 6.3
33 Qatar ..
34 Portugal 0.3
35 United Arab Emirates ..
36 Czech Republic 4.1
37 Barbados ..
38 Malta 0.1
39 Bahrain ..
40 Estonia 4.5
41 Poland 5.5
42 Slovakia 1.8
43 Hungary 3.4
44 Chile 0
45 Croatia (.)
46 Lithuania 6.8
47 Antigua and Barbuda 14.2
48 Latvia 5.9
49 Argentina 6.5
50 Uruguay 0.1
51 Cuba ..
52 Bahamas ..
53 Mexico (.)
54 Costa Rica 0.2
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 34.0
56 Oman ..
57 Seychelles 0.2
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.1
59 Saudi Arabia ..
60 Panama 0.1
61 Bulgaria 53.8
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis ..
63 Romania 15.0
64 Trinidad and Tobago (.)
65 Montenegro ..
66 Malaysia 80.3
67 Serbia ..
68 Belarus 6.1
69 Saint Lucia ..
70 Albania 0.4
71 Russian Federation 31.3
72 Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Rep. of) 6.1
73 Dominica 0.3
74 Grenada 0
75 Brazil 31.9
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.1
77 Colombia 0.2
78 Peru 7.5
79 Turkey 3.7
80 Ecuador (.)
81 Mauritius 0.2
82 Kazakhstan 9.6
83 Lebanon 11.0
84 Armenia 6.2
85 Ukraine 9.1
86 Azerbaijan 16.3
87 Thailand 32.4
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 9.5
89 Georgia 10.4
90 Dominican Republic 0.1
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ..
92 China 61.9
93 Belize 0
94 Samoa 0
95 Maldives 37.5
96 Jordan 74.2
97 Suriname 0
98 Tunisia 4.3
99 Tonga 0.2
100 Jamaica (.)
101 Paraguay 1.1
102 Sri Lanka 26.2
103 Gabon 0
104 Algeria 2.3
105 Philippines 20.1
106 El Salvador (.)
107 Syrian Arab Republic 33.0
108 Fiji 0.3
109 Turkmenistan ..
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories ..
111 Indonesia 65.1
112 Honduras 0.1
113 Bolivia 2.0
114 Guyana 0
115 Mongolia 11.0
116 Viet Nam 4.1
117 Moldova 6.4
118 Equatorial Guinea ..
119 Uzbekistan ..
120 Kyrgyzstan 8.6
121 Cape Verde 0
122 Guatemala (.)
123 Egypt 58.6
124 Nicaragua (.)
125 Botswana 0.1
126 Vanuatu 0.2
127 Tajikistan 28.6
128 Namibia 0
129 South Africa 0.6
130 Morocco 8.0
131 Sao Tome and Principe 0
132 Bhutan ..
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 6.3
134 India 58.2
135 Solomon Islands 0.5
136 Congo 0.4
137 Cambodia 4.6
138 Myanmar ..
139 Comoros 0.1
140 Yemen 84.7
141 Pakistan 45.2
142 Swaziland 0.1
143 Angola ..
144 Nepal 75.3
145 Madagascar 0.1
146 Bangladesh 69.7
147 Kenya 0.4
148 Papua New Guinea 0.7
149 Haiti (.)
150 Sudan 55.5
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 0.5
152 Ghana 0.7
153 Cameroon 0.1
154 Mauritania 0.5
155 Djibouti ..
156 Lesotho (.)
157 Uganda 0.5
158 Nigeria 2.0
159 Togo (.)
160 Malawi 0
161 Benin (.)
162 Timor-Leste ..
163 Côte d'Ivoire 0.1
164 Zambia ..
165 Eritrea ..
166 Senegal 0.1
167 Rwanda 0.1
168 Gambia 0
169 Liberia ..
170 Guinea 0.2
171 Ethiopia 24.1
172 Mozambique 0
173 Guinea-Bissau 0
174 Burundi 0
175 Chad ..
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) ..
177 Burkina Faso 0
178 Mali (.)
179 Central African Republic ..
180 Sierra Leone 0
181 Afghanistan ..
182 Niger 0
Other UN member states
Iraq ..
Kiribati 0.3
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 from Ratha and Shaw (2006). "South-South Migration and Remittances (The Bilateral Remittances Matrix Version 4)". Washington DC: World Bank.
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