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Sudan - Workers' remittances and compensation of employees

Personal remittances, paid (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, paid (current US$) in Sudan was $199,517,700 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $208,724,800 in 2018 and a minimum value of $78,779 in 2009.

Definition: Personal remittances comprise personal transfers and compensation of employees. Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made or received by resident households to or from nonresident households. Personal transfers thus include all current transfers between resident and nonresident individuals. Compensation of employees refers to the income of border, seasonal, and other short-term workers who are employed in an economy where they are not resident and of residents employed by nonresident entities. Data are the sum of two items defined in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: personal transfers and compensation of employees. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.

Year	Value
1977	$3,446,214
1978	$2,877,464
1979	$12,210,000
1980	$53,200,000
1981	$61,254,820
1982	$26,001,770
1983	$28,615,390
1984	$8,000,000
1985	$12,182,720
1986	$24,040,000
1987	$4,137,778
1988	$1,088,889
1989	$4,377,778
1990	$2,100,000
1991	$200,000
1992	$200,000
1993	$200,000
1994	$200,000
1995	$900,000
1996	$650,000
1997	$400,000
1998	$4,600,000
1999	$2,700,000
2000	$4,400,000
2001	$1,900,000
2002	$3,590,000
2003	$650,000
2004	$2,140,000
2005	$1,738,018
2006	$2,442,585
2007	$2,041,564
2008	$2,102,553
2009	$78,779
2010	$788,632
2011	$1,706,235
2012	$8,021,747
2013	$64,367,680
2014	$35,611,550
2015	$89,390,260
2016	$112,042,600
2017	$124,699,700
2018	$208,724,800
2019	$138,816,500
2020	$199,517,700

Personal remittances, received (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, received (current US$) in Sudan was $495,355,100 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $1,590,626,000 in 2008 and a minimum value of $40,492,910 in 1977.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data.

Year	Value
1977	$40,492,910
1978	$68,978,420
1979	$127,890,000
1980	$262,200,000
1981	$383,991,600
1982	$133,111,200
1983	$274,461,500
1984	$284,769,200
1985	$260,808,400
1986	$113,320,000
1987	$137,817,800
1988	$217,355,600
1989	$416,733,300
1990	$61,900,000
1991	$45,400,000
1992	$123,700,000
1993	$75,200,000
1994	$107,200,000
1995	$346,200,000
1996	$221,520,000
1997	$419,600,000
1998	$686,600,000
1999	$665,100,000
2000	$640,800,000
2001	$739,600,000
2002	$977,690,000
2003	$1,223,600,000
2004	$1,402,950,000
2005	$703,788,400
2006	$800,828,700
2007	$999,710,700
2008	$1,590,626,000
2009	$1,394,396,000
2010	$1,455,537,000
2011	$824,220,900
2012	$595,843,300
2013	$619,508,800
2014	$506,556,800
2015	$151,392,000
2016	$153,411,500
2017	$212,936,000
2018	$425,214,300
2019	$522,317,300
2020	$495,355,100

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) in Sudan was 2.32 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 43 years was 6.23 in 1999, while its lowest value was 0.29 in 2015.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on IMF balance of payments data, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

Year	Value
1977	0.47
1978	0.90
1979	1.42
1980	3.51
1981	3.83
1982	1.44
1983	3.33
1984	2.94
1985	2.10
1986	0.72
1987	0.68
1988	1.41
1989	2.73
1990	0.50
1991	0.40
1992	1.76
1993	0.85
1994	0.84
1995	2.50
1996	2.46
1997	3.59
1998	6.10
1999	6.23
2000	5.23
2001	4.71
2002	5.39
2003	5.73
2004	5.27
2005	2.00
2006	1.77
2007	1.68
2008	2.45
2009	2.70
2010	2.47
2011	1.50
2012	1.58
2013	1.44
2014	1.02
2015	0.29
2016	0.36
2017	0.52
2018	1.37
2019	2.00
2020	2.32

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: Balance of payments