Somalia - Workers' remittances and compensation of employees

Personal remittances, paid (current US$)

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.

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Year Value
1979 $746,624
1980 $1,699,762
1981 $2,652,899
1982 $5,376,570
1983 $2,571,629

Personal remittances, received (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, received (current US$) in Somalia was $1,735,000,000.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $1,735,000,000.00 in 2020 and a minimum value of $0.00 in 2005.

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.

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Year Value
1979 $36,648,130.00
1980 $57,251,780.00
1981 $7,148,531.00
1982 $19,897,030.00
1983 $21,700,490.00
2005 $0.00
2006 $0.00
2007 $0.00
2008 $0.00
2009 $0.00
2010 $0.00
2011 $0.00
2012 $0.00
2013 $0.00
2014 $0.00
2015 $0.00
2016 $0.00
2017 $0.00
2018 $1,482,000,000.00
2019 $1,577,000,000.00
2020 $1,735,000,000.00

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) in Somalia was 24.91 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 41 years was 25.33 in 2018, while its lowest value was 0.00 in 2013.

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.

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

See also:

Year Value
1979 6.21
1980 9.49
1981 1.02
1982 2.57
1983 2.96
2013 0.00
2014 0.00
2015 0.00
2016 0.00
2017 0.00
2018 25.33
2019 24.35
2020 24.91

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: Balance of payments