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Remittances

Ukraine

Personal remittance receipts of $12.00B in 2024, 6.29% of GDP, from 29 annual observations starting in 1996.

Received, 2024
$12.00B
Share of GDP, 2024
6.29%
Rank in 2024
17th of 160
Net, 2024
$11.81B
Years of receipts
29

Received and paid, US$ billion

0.05.010152020002005201020152020ReceivedPaid

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 11.23% in 2018.

0.0%5.0%10%15%20002005201020152020% 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 $18.06B into Ukraine for 2021, from 76 origin countries. The five largest account for 75.2% of that total. The balance-of-payments series reports $18.06B of receipts for 2021, so the modelled total is the same figure.

OriginModelled valueShare of modelled total
Russian Federation$9.59B53.1%
United States$1.23B6.8%
Kazakhstan$1.01B5.6%
Germany$936.5M5.2%
Poland$812.2M4.5%
Belarus$618.8M3.4%
Czech Republic$601.6M3.3%
Israel$403.1M2.2%
Uzbekistan$326.0M1.8%
Spain$323.2M1.8%

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 $4.32B out of Ukraine across 26 corridors. These are modelled allocations too.

DestinationModelled value
Russian Federation$2.94B
Moldova$263.5M
Belarus$179.6M
Georgia$179.1M
Tajikistan$123.4M

Source: World Bank / KNOMAD Bilateral Remittance Matrix Methodology

This page exists because Ukraine has 29 annual receipt observations, at or above the 10-year minimum. Methodology | All receivers