Low income: Personal transfers, receipts (current US$, BoP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 32.9% in 2018 and the biggest yearly fall was 35.1% in 2017. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2014 to 2023 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 8 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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What this measures

Personal transfers are current transfers, in cash or in kind, received by resident households from non-resident households. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.

All 14 values

Personal transfers, receipts (current US$, BoP) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — US$722.23 million (2020)
• Algeria — US$1.62 billion (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — US$41.52 billion (2025)
• Iraq — US$687.2 million (2025)
• Jordan — US$4.07 billion (2024)
• Lebanon — US$6.56 billion (2023)
• Malta — US$221.9 million (2016)
• Morocco — US$13.66 billion (2025)
• Pakistan — US$40.19 billion (2025)
• Qatar — US$1.26 billion (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Low income

• GDP (current US$) — US$642.67 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$837.36 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$627.91 billion (2025)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Austria (current US$) — US$57.58 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Belgium (current US$) — US$350.05 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Canada (current US$) — US$677.23 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, European Union institutions (current US$) — US$3.08 billion (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Switzerland (current US$) — US$483.76 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Germany (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Low income's personal transfers, receipts (current US$, BoP)?

US$11.87 billion in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2008?

It is up 84.56% from US$6.43 billion in 2008 (4.17% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$11.87 billion in 2023 and the lowest US$5.91 billion in 2009.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.TRF.PWKR.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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