Data for 2021

Cost of Sending Remittances, 2021

Name: Cost of Sending Remittances, 2021
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Cost of Sending Remittances, 2021 covers 99 countries. Madagascar is highest, at 16.595; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.730. The middle country reads 3.377. Against 2020, 99 values changed (41 up, 58 down), 1 left.

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Cost of Sending Remittances · Data for 2021

HighestMadagascar

16.595

Lowest2 countries share it

0.730

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

99countries
1measure
2021the year it describes
97distinct 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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	16.595
2	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	12.190
3	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	10.993
4	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	10.580
5	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	10.284
6	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	10.060
7	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	9.611
8	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	9.450
9	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	8.207
10	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	8.203
11	Guyana`GUY`South America	8.132
12	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	7.873
13	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	7.774
14	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	7.590
15	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	7.582
16	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	7.548
17	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	7.260
18	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	6.377
19	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	6.209
20	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	6.101
21	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	5.928
22	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	5.893
23	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	5.880
24	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	5.415
25	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	5.406
26	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	5.290
27	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	5.243
28	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	5.233
29	Paraguay`PRY`South America	5.180
30	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	5.043
31	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	4.780
32	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	4.774
33	Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	4.590
34	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	4.449
35	Peru`PER`South America	4.440
36	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	4.387
37	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	4.313
38	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	4.312
39	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	4.151
40	Bolivia`BOL`South America	4.144
41	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	3.987
42	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	3.942
43	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	3.870
44	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	3.614
45	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	3.500
46	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	3.457
47	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	3.455
48	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	3.417
49	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	3.410
50	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	3.377
51	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	3.372
52	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	3.327
53	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	3.283
54	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	3.280
55	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	3.197
56	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	3.040
57	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	3.022
58	Colombia`COL`South America	2.945
59	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	2.931
60	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	2.927
61	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	2.911
62	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	2.890
63	Brazil`BRA`South America	2.884
64	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	2.842
65	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	2.793
=66	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	2.750
=66	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	2.750
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	2.732
69	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	2.695
70	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	2.615
71	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	2.580
72	Panama`PAN`Central America	2.500
73	Ecuador`ECU`South America	2.480
74	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	2.345
75	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	2.309
76	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	2.177
77	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2.090
78	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	2.087
79	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	2.080
80	India`IND`Southern Asia	2.077
81	Honduras`HND`Central America	2.055
82	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	2.038
83	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	1.965
84	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	1.917
85	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	1.914
86	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	1.885
87	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	1.876
88	Mexico`MEX`Central America	1.780
89	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	1.570
90	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	1.333
91	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	1.317
92	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	1.309
93	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	1.250
94	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	1.173
95	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	1.167
96	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	0.848
97	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	0.817
=98	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	0.730
=98	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	0.730

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Madagascar16.595
2Angola12.190
3Mozambique10.993
4Cuba10.580
5Tunisia10.284

Lowest

98Eswatinishared0.730
98Lesothoshared0.730
97Malaysia0.817
96Georgia0.848
95Kazakhstan1.167

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.377. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −1countries joined / left
99values changed, of 99 in both
41 · 58rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Gambia1.700 → 7.260+5.560
Croatia0.468 → 3.197+2.729
Vanuatu7.035 → 9.611+2.576
Madagascar14.486 → 16.595+2.109
El Salvador0.000 → 1.917+1.917

Fell most

Togo7.743 → 2.580−5.163
Lesotho5.292 → 0.730−4.562
Palestine6.457 → 1.965−4.492
Sierra Leone12.677 → 8.207−4.471
Myanmar5.282 → 1.309−3.973

− Benin

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

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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 2021.
97 distinct values among 99
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 2.750. 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 99 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (2021). Cost of Sending Remittances, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/remittance-cost/2021

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07Questions