Total Remittances from Canada using World Bank Data

By Mark Blumberg (June, 2014)

Total Remittances from Canada are around $24 billion per year according to data from the World Bank. Here is a list of countries that received the largest amount of remittances from Canada The column in the middle is the amount of Canadian remittances provided to that country. The column on the right reflects total remittances received by that country from all countries including Canada. All numbers in article are in US millions. Some countries don’t track remittances or there may not be information with respect to flows from Canada.

Country Receiving Remittances from Canada / Amount of Canadian Remittances Provided to Country / Total Remittances Received by Country
China / 3,910 / 60,246
India / 3,463 / 69,350
Philippines / 2,032 / 24,453
United Kingdom / 1,208 / 8,332
France / 1,039 / 19,451
Lebanon / 1,003 / 7,472
Vietnam / 843 / 10,000
Germany / 767 / 13,655
Italy / 718 / 7,226
Korea, Rep. / 606 / 11,042
United States / 544 / 4,523
Pakistan / 542 / 14,010
Belgium / 517 / 10,023
Nigeria / 454 / 20,568
Sri Lanka / 444 / 6,312
Poland / 440 / 6,913
Portugal / 309 / 3,895
Jamaica / 305 / 2,158
Egypt, Arab Rep. / 297 / 20,515
Hungary / 254 / 2,188
Netherlands / 231 / 1,764
Switzerland / 178 / 3,116
Bangladesh / 164 / 14,060
El Salvador / 150 / 3,965
Czech Republic / 141 / 2,003
Hong Kong SAR, China / 132 / 377
Haiti / 131 / 1,625
Romania / 131 / 3,669
Austria / 117 / 2,912
Iran, Islamic Rep. / 111 / 1,376
Mexico / 111 / 23,219
Morocco / 108 / 6,894
Guatemala / 100 / 4,922
Colombia / 95 / 4,110
Denmark / 94 / 1,222
Guyana / 91 / 397
Spain / 89 / 10,133
Japan / 89 / 2,728
Kenya / 87 / 1,228
Croatia / 84 / 1,389
Ukraine / 79 / 6,500
Australia / 77 / 1,620
Peru / 69 / 2,808
Brazil / 65 / 4,936
South Africa / 64 / 1,115
Thailand / 61 / 4,124
Algeria / 59 / 1,843
Syrian Arab Republic / 57 / 2,079
Jordan / 53 / 3,643
Indonesia / 49 / 7,207
Slovenia / 45 / 536
Bosnia and Herzegovina / 44 / 1,863
Greece / 44 / 618
Slovak Republic / 44 / 1,622
Finland / 38 / 853
Ecuador / 37 / 2,682
Russian Federation / 37 / 5,169
Uganda / 37 / 977
Israel / 33 / 1,300
Honduras / 31 / 2,971
Tunisia / 30 / 2,198
Nepal / 28 / 4,953
Ethiopia / 26 / 524
Ireland / 26 / 742
Fiji / 26 / 165
Sudan / 26 / 1,126
Dominican Republic / 25 / 3,505
Lithuania / 25 / 1,387
Norway / 25 / 756
Bulgaria / 23 / 1,376
Latvia / 23 / 732
Malaysia / 21 / 1,272
Luxembourg / 20 / 1,642
Trinidad and Tobago / 20 / 95
Mauritius / 20 / 247
Saudi Arabia / 19 / 245
Sweden / 18 / 722
Cambodia / 18 / 257
Paraguay / 18 / 872
Moldova / 18 / 1,770
Nicaragua / 17 / 1,010
New Zealand / 16 / 883
Estonia / 15 / 394
Costa Rica / 14 / 522
Barbados / 14 / 84
Argentina / 13 / 573
Afghanistan / 13 / 445
Iraq / 12 / 381
Panama / 11 / 472
Tanzania / 10 / 75
Albania / 9 / 1,035
St. Vincent and the Grenadines / 9 / 36
Macedonia, FYR / 9 / 393
Grenada / 9 / 59
Macao SAR, China / 9 / 121
Senegal / 9 / 1,367
Bolivia / 7 / 1,019
Kyrgyz Republic / 6 / 2,024
Ghana / 6 / 152
Rwanda / 6 / 156
Lao PDR / 6 / 117
Turkey / 6 / 940
Armenia / 5 / 1,449
Tajikistan / 5 / 3,739
Belize / 4 / 83
Azerbaijan / 4 / 1,804
St. Kitts and Nevis / 4 / 42
Cyprus / 4 / 110
Liberia / 4 / 372
Belarus / 3 / 655
St. Lucia / 3 / 31
Venezuela, RB / 3 / 126
Malta / 3 / 33
Togo / 3 / 321
Oman / 3 / 39
Uruguay / 2 / 99
Seychelles / 2 / 26
Georgia / 2 / 1,061
Sierra Leone / 2 / 79
Burundi / 2 / 42
Yemen, Rep. / 2 / 1,487
Djibouti / 2 / 32
Cameroon / 2 / 109
Côte d'Ivoire / 2 / 325
Mongolia / 2 / 288
Antigua and Barbuda / 1 / 22
Zambia / 1 / 46
Dominica / 1 / 26
Mali / 1 / 444
Guinea / 1 / 75
Gambia, The / 1 / 89
Iceland / 1 / 35
Lesotho / 0 / 602
Namibia / 0 / 17
Cape Verde / 0 / 177
Benin / 0 / 179
Kazakhstan / 0 / 162
Niger / 0 / 122
Botswana / 0 / 55
Mozambique / 0 / 99
Tonga / 0 / 74
Chile / 0 / 3
Vanuatu / 0 / 19
Samoa / 0 / 128
Malawi / 0 / 16
Burkina Faso / 0 / 130
Papua New Guinea / 0 / 9
Swaziland / 0 / 47
Guinea-Bissau / 0 / 42
Solomon Islands / 0 / 2
Maldives / 0 / 3
Suriname / 0 / 4
Bhutan / 0 / 10
São Tomé and Principe / 0 / 6
Angola / 0 / 0
Montenegro / 0 / 327
Serbia / 0 / 2,754
American Samoa
Andorra
Aruba / 15
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bermuda / 1,356
Brunei Darussalam
Canada
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Channel Islands
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Congo, Rep.
Cuba
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faeroe Islands / 146
French Polynesia / 755
Gabon
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Kosovo / 1,042
Kuwait
Libya
Liechtenstein
Madagascar
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mayotte
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Monaco
Myanmar / 566
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia / 519
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Puerto Rico
Qatar
San Marino
Singapore
Somalia
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
West Bank and Gaza / 1,545
Zimbabwe

For more information on remittances you can review the data on the World Bank website.

Mark Blumberg is a lawyer at Blumberg Segal LLP in Toronto, Ontario. He can be contacted at or at 416-361-1982. To find out more about legal services that Blumbergs provides to Canadian charities and non-profits please visit or

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