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Human Development Report 2009

EInternational financial flows: remittances, official development assistance and foreign direct investment
Remittance inflows as a % of ODAExcel

HDI Rank Country 2007
1 Norway ..
2 Australia ..
3 Iceland ..
4 Canada ..
5 Ireland ..
6 Netherlands ..
7 Sweden ..
8 France ..
9 Switzerland ..
10 Japan ..
11 Luxembourg ..
12 Finland ..
13 United States ..
14 Austria ..
15 Spain ..
16 Denmark ..
17 Belgium ..
18 Italy ..
19 Liechtenstein ..
20 New Zealand ..
21 United Kingdom ..
22 Germany ..
23 Singapore ..
24 Hong Kong, China (SAR) ..
25 Greece ..
26 Korea (Republic of) ..
27 Israel ..
28 Andorra ..
29 Slovenia ..
30 Brunei Darussalam ..
31 Kuwait ..
32 Cyprus ..
33 Qatar ..
34 Portugal ..
35 United Arab Emirates ..
36 Czech Republic ..
37 Barbados 1,025.6
38 Malta ..
39 Bahrain ..
40 Estonia ..
41 Poland ..
42 Slovakia ..
43 Hungary ..
44 Chile 2.1
45 Croatia 850.8
46 Lithuania ..
47 Antigua and Barbuda 560.9
48 Latvia ..
49 Argentina 737.0
50 Uruguay 285.6
51 Cuba ..
52 Bahamas ..
53 Mexico 22,416.0
54 Costa Rica 1,205.1
55 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 84.1
56 Oman ..
57 Seychelles 402.5
58 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 191.0
59 Saudi Arabia ..
60 Panama ..
61 Bulgaria ..
62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1,289.0
63 Romania ..
64 Trinidad and Tobago 503.0
65 Montenegro ..
66 Malaysia 851.4
67 Serbia ..
68 Belarus 425.4
69 Saint Lucia 131.5
70 Albania 350.9
71 Russian Federation ..
72 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 124.9
73 Dominica 133.8
74 Grenada 244.3
75 Brazil 1,475.0
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 568.6
77 Colombia 618.9
78 Peru 810.2
79 Turkey 151.7
80 Ecuador 1,436.6
81 Mauritius 288.3
82 Kazakhstan 110.1
83 Lebanon 614.1
84 Armenia 240.6
85 Ukraine 1,111.1
86 Azerbaijan 571.4
87 Thailand ..
88 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,094.5
89 Georgia 182.0
90 Dominican Republic 2,674.2
91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 46.6
92 China 2,282.3
93 Belize 319.4
94 Samoa 324.3
95 Maldives 8.0
96 Jordan 680.8
97 Suriname 92.7
98 Tunisia 553.2
99 Tonga 326.8
100 Jamaica 8,231.9
101 Paraguay 434.1
102 Sri Lanka 429.1
103 Gabon 22.8
104 Algeria 543.9
105 Philippines 2,567.7
106 El Salvador 4,211.6
107 Syrian Arab Republic 1,099.7
108 Fiji 287.9
109 Turkmenistan ..
110 Occupied Palestinian Territories 32.0
111 Indonesia 776.1
112 Honduras 565.4
113 Bolivia 194.4
114 Guyana 224.6
115 Mongolia 85.1
116 Viet Nam 220.3
117 Moldova 556.6
118 Equatorial Guinea ..
119 Uzbekistan ..
120 Kyrgyzstan 261.1
121 Cape Verde 85.0
122 Guatemala 945.6
123 Egypt 706.6
124 Nicaragua 88.7
125 Botswana 135.2
126 Vanuatu 8.8
127 Tajikistan 764.0
128 Namibia 8.2
129 South Africa 105.0
130 Morocco 617.8
131 Sao Tome and Principe 5.6
132 Bhutan ..
133 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.3
134 India 2,716.2
135 Solomon Islands 8.2
136 Congo 11.7
137 Cambodia 52.5
138 Myanmar 65.9
139 Comoros 27.0
140 Yemen 569.1
141 Pakistan 271.1
142 Swaziland 156.9
143 Angola ..
144 Nepal 289.8
145 Madagascar 1.2
146 Bangladesh 436.9
147 Kenya 124.5
148 Papua New Guinea 4.2
149 Haiti 174.3
150 Sudan 84.1
151 Tanzania (United Republic of) 0.5
152 Ghana 10.2
153 Cameroon 8.7
154 Mauritania 0.5
155 Djibouti 25.3
156 Lesotho 342.3
157 Uganda 49.1
158 Nigeria 451.5
159 Togo 189.4
160 Malawi 0.1
161 Benin 47.7
162 Timor-Leste ..
163 Côte d'Ivoire 108.7
164 Zambia 5.7
165 Eritrea ..
166 Senegal 109.8
167 Rwanda 7.2
168 Gambia 65.4
169 Liberia 9.3
170 Guinea 67.2
171 Ethiopia 14.8
172 Mozambique 5.6
173 Guinea-Bissau 23.5
174 Burundi (.)
175 Chad ..
176 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) ..
177 Burkina Faso 5.4
178 Mali 20.8
179 Central African Republic ..
180 Sierra Leone 27.7
181 Afghanistan ..
182 Niger 14.4
Other UN member states
Iraq ..
Kiribati 25.9
Korea (Democratic People's Rep. of) ..
Marshall Islands ..
Micronesia (Federated States of) ..
Monaco ..
Nauru ..
Palau ..
San Marino ..
Somalia ..
Tuvalu ..
Zimbabwe ..

Sources :
calculated based on data on remittances from World Bank (2009b). "Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008: March 2009 Update". Washington DC: World Bank and on ODA from OECD-DAC (2009)."Creditor Reporting System (CRS) Database." http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/17/5037721.htm. Accessed July 2009.
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