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Cost of Sending Remittances

8 years, 2016–2023 · 93 countries

This is what it costs, on average, to send $200 home to a country — as a percentage of the amount sent. For the countries most dependent on money sent by workers abroad, the difference between a 3% fee and an 8% one is a real amount of household income.

This site holds every year from 2016 to 2023, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Cost of Sending Remittances · the file

Newest
Cost of Sending Remittances, 2023
Held
8 years · 780 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

018 years

Every year

Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2016bar height: countries covered, up to 1042023
Every year of Cost of Sending Remittances held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Cost of Sending Remittances, 2023Newest93±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 202293+1 −7September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 202199−1September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020100+3September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 201997+2 −2September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 201897+5 −5September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 201797−7September 6, 2026CSV
Cost of Sending Remittances, 2016104—September 6, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: remittance-cost-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Cost of Sending Remittances: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—930
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—930
Average cost of sending $200 home (% of the amount)remittance_costHeadlineThe headline figure: Average cost of sending $200 home (% of the amount).Number · up to 14 decimals-49.693334Malawi19.630000Cubamiddle 3.224584920

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03104 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Cost of Sending Remittances, by continent.
20162017201820192020202120222023
Africa3733333336353535
Americas1918181818181818
Asia2826262626262323
Europe1616161616161313
Oceania44444444
All104979797100999393

Who joined and who left

  • 2022
    + Yemen− Azerbaijan− Belarus− Estonia− Georgia− Kazakhstan− Latvia− Uzbekistan
  • 2021
    − Benin
  • 2020
    + DR Congo+ South Sudan+ Eswatini
  • 2019
    + Eritrea+ Madagascar− DR Congo− Eswatini
  • 2018
    + Benin+ Comoros+ Cuba+ Liberia+ Palestine− Eritrea− Madagascar− South Sudan− Suriname− Yemen
  • 2017
    − Benin− Comoros− Cuba− Liberia− Palestine− Sudan− Syria

Not in this dataset · 121 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelgiumBelizeBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurkina FasoBurundiCanadaCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsChileCook IslandsCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGabonGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuineaGuinea-BissauHong KongIcelandIranIraqIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKiribatiKuwaitLibyaLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMaldivesMaltaMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMontserratNamibiaNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPalauPapua New GuineaPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of the CongoRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTimor-LesteTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsUruguayVatican CityVenezuela

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

    remittanceprices.worldbank.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Cost of Sending Remittances 2023

    SI.RMT.COST.IB.ZS

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    8 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as remittance-cost-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/remittance-cost

Precision

The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the World Bank’s Remittance Prices Worldwide via its indicator API (SI.RMT.COST.IB.ZS). This is the cost of sending money IN to a country; the outbound series covers too few countries to publish.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 7, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Cost of Sending Remittances, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Cost of Sending Remittances, 2016–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/remittance-cost

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Remittance Prices Worldwide. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Cost of Sending Remittances: questions and answers

What is the Cost of Sending Remittances?

This is what it costs, on average, to send $200 home to a country — as a percentage of the amount sent. For the countries most dependent on money sent by workers abroad, the difference between a 3% fee and an 8% one is a real amount of household income.

Which years of the Cost of Sending Remittances can I download?

All 8, from 2016 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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