Primary income receipts (BoP, current US$) by country

What this measures

Primary income receipts refer to employee compensation paid to resident workers working abroad and investment income (receipts on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments, and receipts on reserve assets). 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.

Each country's latest available year is shown; countries report on different schedules, so compare years before comparing values.

Ranking

Regions and income groups

More economic policy & debt indicators

• Trade in services (% of GDP)
• Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP)
• Primary income payments (BoP, current US$)
• Imports of goods and services (current US$, BoP)
• Insurance and financial services (% of service imports, BoP)
• Goods imports (current US$, BoP)
• Service imports (current US$, BoP)
• Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$)
• Imports of goods, services and primary income (current US$, BoP)
• Transport services (% of service imports, BoP)
• Travel services (% of service imports, BoP)
• Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$)

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Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, BX.GSR.FCTY.CD, CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) View on data.worldbank.org; the full definition is in the World Bank's metadata glossary.