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Remittances

South Sudan

Personal remittance receipts of $1.18B in 2023, from 10 annual observations starting in 2014. The series carries no observation for South Sudan after 2023, while 160 countries report through 2024, so this country is absent from the 2024 ranking.

Received, 2023
$1.18B
Share of GDP, 2023
n/a
No 2024 observation
n/a
Net, 2023
$1.01B
Years of receipts
10

Received and paid, US$ billion

0.00.51.01.520142016201820202022ReceivedPaid

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 9.49% in 2015.

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%10%20142016201820202022% of GDP

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 $1.24B into South Sudan for 2021, from 33 origin countries. The five largest account for 89.1% of that total. The balance-of-payments series reports $135.0M of receipts for 2021, so the modelled total is 815.6% above it.

OriginModelled valueShare of modelled total
Sudan$449.5M36.4%
Uganda$356.6M28.9%
Ethiopia$153.3M12.4%
Kenya$73.9M6.0%
United Arab Emirates$68.1M5.5%
Australia$33.6M2.7%
Egypt$23.7M1.9%
Canada$21.1M1.7%
Congo DR$18.7M1.5%
Qatar$11.3M0.9%

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 $529.1M out of South Sudan across 9 corridors. These are modelled allocations too.

DestinationModelled value
Sudan$227.5M
Uganda$144.7M
Kenya$44.2M
Congo DR$38.2M
Egypt$37.3M

Source: World Bank / KNOMAD Bilateral Remittance Matrix Methodology

This page exists because South Sudan has 10 annual receipt observations, at or above the 10-year minimum. Methodology | All receivers