El Salvador
Personal remittance receipts of $8.49B in 2024, 24.34% of GDP, from 49 annual observations starting in 1976.
- Received, 2024
- $8.49B
- Share of GDP, 2024
- 24.34%
- Rank in 2024
- 26th of 160
- Net, 2024
- $8.23B
- Years of receipts
- 49
Received and paid, US$ billion
Source: World Bank WDI: personal remittances received (BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), paid (BM.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), current US$ Gross flows in current US dollars. A gap in a line is a year with no observation, not a zero. Methodology
Receipts as a share of GDP
The highest reading in the series is 26.25% in 2021.
Source: World Bank WDI: personal remittances received (BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), paid (BM.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), current US$ | World Bank WDI: GDP, current US$ (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD) Both series are current US dollars from the same WDI vintage; the share moves with the dollar GDP denominator as well as with the inflow. Methodology
Where the money is modelled to come from, 2021
The corridor matrix is a model, not a measurement
The 10,229 corridors in this matrix (212 sending economies, 175 receiving) are not observed payments. The World Bank builds it by allocating each country’s total recorded receipts across origins using bilateral migrant stocks and origin-destination incomes. A corridor value is therefore an estimate produced by that allocation rule. The matrix exists for one year, 2021, and no other.
The matrix routes $7.49B into El Salvador for 2021, from 54 origin countries. The five largest account for 95.6% of that total. The balance-of-payments series reports $7.62B of receipts for 2021, so the modelled total is 1.8% below it.
| Origin | Modelled value | Share of modelled total |
|---|---|---|
| United States | $6.71B | 89.6% |
| Canada | $228.6M | 3.1% |
| Italy | $86.4M | 1.2% |
| Guatemala | $69.7M | 0.9% |
| Costa Rica | $62.9M | 0.8% |
| Mexico | $62.3M | 0.8% |
| Spain | $52.2M | 0.7% |
| Australia | $51.1M | 0.7% |
| Belize | $33.4M | 0.4% |
| Honduras | $30.2M | 0.4% |
Source: World Bank / KNOMAD Bilateral Remittance Matrix | World Bank WDI: personal remittances received (BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), paid (BM.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), current US$ Every row is an allocation from migrant-stock and income data, not an observed payment. Methodology
Modelled outward corridors, 2021
The same matrix sends $192.0M out of El Salvador across 43 corridors. These are modelled allocations too.
| Destination | Modelled value |
|---|---|
| Guatemala | $73.8M |
| Honduras | $57.5M |
| Nicaragua | $18.1M |
| United States | $12.7M |
| Mexico | $7.1M |
Source: World Bank / KNOMAD Bilateral Remittance Matrix Methodology
This page exists because El Salvador has 49 annual receipt observations, at or above the 10-year minimum. Methodology | All receivers