plate 204 · 2025 data

Money sent home now tops half of Tajikistan's economy

Personal remittances received, % of GDP, 2025, the ten highest economies with 2025 data, vs 2019.

Trade and money rewired
  1. 1. Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods
  2. 2. China's ASEAN trade is now almost double its US trade
  3. 3. Central banks now hold more gold than Treasuries or euros
  4. 4. China now pays the world mostly in yuan
  5. 5. Migrants now send home four times all foreign aid
  6. 6. Tether now holds more US Treasuries than the UAE
  7. 7. Developing countries' interest bill has nearly tripled since 2010
  8. 8. America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years
  9. 9. Poles edge past the Japanese in income per person
  10. 10. In dollars, Nigeria's economy has more than halved since 2014
  11. 11. Argentina's monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.9%
  12. 12. Guyana now produces more per person than America
  13. 13. Mexico's factories now outproduce Britain's and France's
  14. 14. Ukraine received four times the aid of any other country
  15. 15. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
  16. 16. Singapore now draws twice as much foreign investment as China
  17. 17. The EU now buys more US gas than Russian gas
  18. 18. Malaysia again sells more to America than to China
  19. 19. 22 governments now owe more than a year's national output
  20. 20. Brazil mines 93% of the world's niobium
  21. 21. More Vietnamese now work in industry than on farms
  22. 22. Money sent home to Guatemala nearly quadrupled in ten years
  23. 23. In purchasing power, Russia's economy is now bigger than Japan's
  24. 24. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
  25. 25. Factories now make more of Cambodia's economy than China's
  26. 26. China now buys more from Brazil than from Germany
  27. 27. Kazakhstan now sells Russia more than Germany does
  28. 28. China fell to third among America's suppliers in 2025
  29. 29. Colombians abroad now send home more than foreigners invest
  30. 30. 72 countries now pay China more than it lends them
  31. 31. Pakistan rose to first place in Chinese energy finance
  32. 32. America overtook China as Taiwan's biggest export market
  33. 33. Mongolia's coal exports hit a record 90 million tonnes
  34. 34. Viet Nam's ports now handle more containers than Japan's
  35. 35. Money sent home now tops half of Tajikistan's economy
57.7%

Money sent home by Tajiks working abroad equalled 57.7% of GDP in 2025, the first year above half and a record for the series.

$10.2bn

Remittances received in 2025, up from $6.8bn in 2024 and $2.3bn in 2019.

18 points

Tajikistan's lead over Tonga, the next most dependent country with 2025 data, at 39.3%.

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP), 2025
the numbers & method
Money sent home now tops half of Tajikistan's economy. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators: Personal remittances, received (% of GDP), 2025.
2025 (%)2019 (grey bar) (%)
Tajikistan57.728.0
Tonga39.335.9
Nepal32.324.1
Honduras30.121.7
El Salvador27.521.0
Gambia23.815.2
Samoa22.417.0
Guatemala20.813.8
Lesotho20.822.1
Kosovo17.315.8

Claim types Fact · Interpretation

World Bank WDI series BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS and BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT (current US$), edition last updated 2026-10-08, read from the World Bank API (api.worldbank.org/v2). Personal remittances are personal transfers plus compensation of employees (wages of seasonal and border workers), so they include more than family transfers. Tajikistan, % of GDP: 2008 44.1, 2013 43.8, 2019 28.0, 2021 32.7, 2022 49.9, 2023 37.8, 2024 47.2, 2025 57.7 (highest in the series since 2002). US$: 2019 2.32bn, 2022 5.35bn, 2023 4.63bn, 2024 6.80bn, 2025 10.18bn. The ranking covers economies with a 2025 value (regional and income aggregates excluded). Some economies lack 2025 data: Lebanon 33.3% (2023), Nicaragua 26.6% (2024), Bermuda 24.2% (2024), Marshall Islands 23.5% (2024), Liberia 21.3% (2024), Kyrgyz Republic 17.6% (2024), Haiti 16.9% (2024); none of these latest values is above Tajikistan's 2025 value. The Kyrgyz Republic was slightly higher than Tajikistan in 2019 (28.8%) and 2020 (31.8%). Not an all-time world record: Lesotho exceeded 100% of GDP in the 1980s in the same series. The 2025 jump is in US dollars and partly reflects a stronger Russian rouble (Interpretation). Lead and differences are progrss calculations.

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