Data for 2020

Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020

Name: Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020
Creator: World Bank Group
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2020, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020 covers 100 countries. Benin is highest, at 17.350; El Salvador is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 3.838. Against 2019, 96 values changed (34 up, 62 down), 3 countries joined.

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Cost of Sending Remittances · Data for 2020

HighestBenin

17.350

LowestEl Salvador

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

100countries
1measure
2020the year it describes
99distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	17.350
2	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	14.486
3	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	13.808
4	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	12.677
5	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	10.919
6	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	10.662
7	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	10.533
8	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	10.017
9	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	9.396
10	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	9.180
11	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	9.029
12	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	8.990
13	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	7.869
14	Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	7.757
15	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	7.743
16	Guyana`GUY`South America	7.425
17	Paraguay`PRY`South America	7.345
18	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	7.269
19	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	7.191
20	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	7.035
21	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	7.034
22	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	6.879
23	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	6.631
24	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	6.576
25	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	6.476
26	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	6.457
27	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	6.323
28	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	5.912
29	Peru`PER`South America	5.899
30	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	5.782
31	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	5.625
32	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	5.595
33	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	5.500
34	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	5.414
35	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	5.292
36	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	5.282
37	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	5.239
38	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	5.233
39	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	5.217
40	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	5.200
41	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	4.983
42	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	4.706
43	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	4.398
44	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	4.191
45	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	4.072
46	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	4.064
47	Bolivia`BOL`South America	3.922
48	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	3.920
49	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	3.847
50	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	3.840
51	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	3.836
52	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	3.811
53	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	3.760
54	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	3.756
55	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	3.676
56	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	3.667
57	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	3.664
58	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	3.587
59	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	3.572
60	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	3.548
61	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	3.516
62	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	3.477
63	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	3.279
64	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	3.235
65	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	3.217
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	3.189
67	Brazil`BRA`South America	3.109
68	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	3.099
69	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	3.059
70	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	2.997
71	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	2.984
72	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	2.913
73	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	2.768
74	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	2.698
75	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	2.696
76	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	2.689
77	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	2.616
78	Ecuador`ECU`South America	2.522
79	Panama`PAN`Central America	2.497
80	India`IND`Southern Asia	2.322
81	Mexico`MEX`Central America	2.272
82	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	2.248
83	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	2.226
84	Honduras`HND`Central America	2.167
85	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	2.134
86	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	2.119
87	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	1.750
88	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	1.700
89	Colombia`COL`South America	1.559
90	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	1.459
91	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	1.377
92	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	1.330
93	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	1.190
=94	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	0.997
=94	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	0.997
96	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.986
97	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.824
98	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	0.748
99	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	0.468
100	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.000

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Benin17.350
2Madagascar14.486
3Angola13.808
4Sierra Leone12.677
5Algeria10.919

Lowest

100El Salvador0.000
99Croatia0.468
98Georgia0.748
97Poland0.824
96Romania0.986

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.838. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+3 / −0countries joined / left
96values changed, of 97 in both
34 · 62rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Benin9.560 → 17.350+7.790
Cuba6.410 → 10.533+4.123
Estonia1.750 → 5.500+3.750
Lithuania1.242 → 3.235+1.993
Togo5.828 → 7.743+1.914

Fell most

Malawi15.725 → 9.396−6.330
Angola18.722 → 13.808−4.913
Gambia6.359 → 1.700−4.659
Eritrea11.643 → 7.757−3.886
North Macedonia7.050 → 3.760−3.290

+ DR Congo

+ South Sudan

+ Eswatini

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

One year of the 2026 release
Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2020.
99 distinct values among 100
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 0.997. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 100 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: 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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2020). Cost of Sending Remittances, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/remittance-cost/2020

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07Questions