Spain - Workers' remittances and compensation of employees

Personal remittances, paid (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, paid (current US$) in Spain was $349,432,500 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $1,017,175,000 in 1998 and a minimum value of $1,246,556 in 1978.

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
1975 $1,717,613
1976 $2,945,085
1977 $2,655,160
1978 $1,246,556
1979 $7,489,694
1980 $11,255,760
1981 $11,797,620
1982 $16,502,720
1983 $15,740,970
1984 $23,020,280
1985 $130,917,500
1986 $128,681,000
1987 $129,936,000
1988 $162,415,500
1989 $246,620,300
1990 $158,846,400
1991 $207,192,800
1992 $392,980,800
1993 $498,084,500
1994 $490,554,800
1995 $645,759,200
1996 $754,788,500
1997 $833,185,900
1998 $1,017,175,000
1999 $549,865,000
2000 $621,628,200
2001 $573,849,900
2002 $533,009,800
2003 $539,217,700
2004 $704,875,600
2005 $732,686,900
2006 $794,233,200
2007 $897,282,000
2008 $748,880,900
2009 $557,286,300
2010 $470,665,800
2011 $496,949,000
2012 $407,461,000
2013 $353,454,900
2014 $402,801,000
2015 $368,030,600
2016 $304,127,600
2017 $362,587,700
2018 $439,830,600
2019 $459,070,900
2020 $349,432,500

Personal remittances, received (current US$)

The value for Personal remittances, received (current US$) in Spain was $2,996,361,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of $3,331,709,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of $635,029,200 in 1999.

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
1975 $1,403,780,000
1976 $1,380,182,000
1977 $1,463,044,000
1978 $1,734,471,000
1979 $1,895,898,000
1980 $2,187,929,000
1981 $1,815,784,000
1982 $1,581,558,000
1983 $1,348,032,000
1984 $1,226,743,000
1985 $1,234,491,000
1986 $1,433,077,000
1987 $1,583,676,000
1988 $1,790,330,000
1989 $1,861,107,000
1990 $2,185,528,000
1991 $2,136,284,000
1992 $2,636,532,000
1993 $2,321,499,000
1994 $2,631,302,000
1995 $2,763,617,000
1996 $2,925,152,000
1997 $2,899,430,000
1998 $3,253,445,000
1999 $635,029,200
2000 $648,649,700
2001 $699,655,900
2002 $745,323,100
2003 $900,330,000
2004 $1,011,285,000
2005 $1,135,293,000
2006 $1,281,555,000
2007 $1,676,470,000
2008 $1,840,375,000
2009 $1,524,559,000
2010 $1,595,954,000
2011 $1,714,254,000
2012 $2,093,911,000
2013 $3,035,757,000
2014 $3,130,366,000
2015 $2,673,407,000
2016 $2,632,184,000
2017 $3,004,745,000
2018 $3,331,709,000
2019 $3,212,475,000
2020 $2,996,361,000

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)

Personal remittances, received (% of GDP) in Spain was 0.23 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 1.22 in 1975, while its lowest value was 0.09 in 2004.

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
1975 1.22
1976 1.16
1977 1.10
1978 1.08
1979 0.88
1980 0.94
1981 0.90
1982 0.81
1983 0.79
1984 0.71
1985 0.68
1986 0.57
1987 0.50
1988 0.48
1989 0.45
1990 0.41
1991 0.37
1992 0.42
1993 0.44
1994 0.50
1995 0.45
1996 0.46
1997 0.49
1998 0.53
1999 0.10
2000 0.11
2001 0.11
2002 0.11
2003 0.10
2004 0.09
2005 0.10
2006 0.10
2007 0.11
2008 0.11
2009 0.10
2010 0.11
2011 0.12
2012 0.16
2013 0.22
2014 0.23
2015 0.22
2016 0.21
2017 0.23
2018 0.23
2019 0.23
2020 0.23

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: Balance of payments