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This website provides data on the cost of sending and receiving relatively small amounts of money from one country to another. The site covers 212 "country corridors" worldwide, from 31 remittance sending countries to 90 receiving countries. Read more...

Cutting prices by at least 5 percentage points can save up to $16 billion a year.

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5 Least Costly Corridors in US$	Average Cost*
Saudi Arabia Pakistan	4.36
Singapore Bangladesh	4.62
United Arab Emirates Pakistan	5
Saudi Arabia Yemen	6.43
Singapore Philippines	6.68

5 Most Costly Corridors in US$	Average Cost*
Tanzania Uganda	45.19
Tanzania Rwanda	44.97
Tanzania Kenya	43.97
South Africa Zambia	43.43
Ghana Nigeria	42.89

5 Least Costly Corridors in US$	Average Cost*
Singapore Bangladesh	5.67
Saudi Arabia Yemen	8.19
Saudi Arabia Pakistan	8.22
United Arab Emirates Pakistan	8.74
United Arab Emirates Egypt	9.15

5 Most Costly Corridors in US$	Average Cost*
South Africa Zambia	64.02
South Africa Malawi	62.11
Dominican Republic Haiti	61.08
Tanzania Kenya	58.59
Tanzania Rwanda	58.18

Average total cost includes the transaction fee and exchange rate margin. More information…

WHAT'S NEW

Now available: New data for the first quarter of 2012!

Policy Note: A report tracks global remittance trends (PDF, 1.5MB).

New data: Send Money Africa has new data collected on Feb. 7, 2012.

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Currently, databases for Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Central America, Italy, and Norway have been certified by the World Bank.

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