Kenya - Remittances Received 2016
$1.7B
+$175.4M from 2015
Kenya's remittances received was $1.7B in 2016, increased +$175.4M from $1.6B in 2015. This was the 120th highest globally.
Global Ranking - 2016▾
| Rank | Country | Value | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Suriname | $1.5M | -77.7% |
| 2nd | Palau | $2.4M | 3.9% |
| 3rd | Tuvalu | $2.5M | -3.3% |
| 4th | Papua New Guinea | $2.7M | -31.7% |
| 5th | Maldives | $3.8M | 5.0% |
| 6th | Angola | $4.0M | -64.1% |
| 7th | Kuwait | $4.0M | -88.3% |
| 8th | Turks and Caicos Islands | $7.5M | 23.4% |
| 9th | Congo, Republic of | $7.7M | -74.1% |
| 10th | Nauru | $11.7M | 12.7% |
| 11th | Cayman Islands | $13.5M | - |
| 12th | Kiribati | $16.3M | 16.0% |
| 13th | São Tomé and Principe | $18.0M | -9.7% |
| 14th | Solomon Islands | $20.3M | 9.1% |
| 15th | Seychelles | $22.1M | 19.9% |
| 16th | St. Kitts and Nevis | $22.6M | -7.6% |
| 17th | Micronesia, Federated States of | $23.3M | 0.0% |
| 18th | Botswana | $24.6M | -18.0% |
| 19th | Antigua and Barbuda | $26.7M | -14.5% |
| 20th | Macao SAR, China | $27.6M | -30.2% |
| 21st | Marshall Islands | $28.3M | 3.7% |
| 22nd | Bhutan | $34.3M | 74.7% |
| 23rd | Burundi | $34.6M | -32.3% |
| 24th | St. Lucia | $38.4M | -5.2% |
| 25th | Zambia | $38.5M | -18.2% |
| 26th | Oman | $39.0M | 0.0% |
| 27th | Malawi | $39.1M | -5.9% |
| 28th | Djibouti | $40.2M | 1.3% |
| 29th | Dominica | $44.0M | -15.2% |
| 30th | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | $44.9M | 7.4% |
| 31st | Grenada | $45.1M | 4.0% |
| 32nd | Vanuatu | $48.8M | 23.2% |
| 33rd | Guinea | $52.2M | -60.0% |
| 34th | Aruba | $52.7M | -1.8% |
| 35th | Sierra Leone | $58.2M | 20.9% |
| 36th | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | $60.9M | 10.5% |
| 37th | Chile | $64.6M | 9.4% |
| 38th | Namibia | $66.5M | 42.4% |
| 39th | Timor-Leste | $80.2M | 30.2% |
| 40th | Uruguay | $90.4M | 0.2% |
| 41st | Mozambique | $93.4M | -34.6% |
| 42nd | Guinea-Bissau | $95.2M | 12.1% |
| 43rd | Belize | $96.7M | 14.1% |
| 44th | Eswatini | $98.4M | 2.8% |
| 45th | Comoros | $116.7M | -11.5% |
| 46th | Tonga | $126.2M | -2.4% |
| 47th | Samoa | $130.8M | -0.3% |
| 48th | Trinidad and Tobago | $145.2M | -6.5% |
| 49th | Gambia, The | $145.7M | -5.4% |
| 50th | Curaçao | $148.4M | 4.2% |
| 51st | Sudan | $153.4M | 1.3% |
| 52nd | Barbados | $157.5M | -20.5% |
| 53rd | Rwanda | $172.5M | 8.4% |
| 54th | Niger | $176.4M | 2.8% |
| 55th | Lao PDR | $189.4M | 0.1% |
| 56th | Mauritius | $194.1M | -13.2% |
| 57th | Cabo Verde | $211.4M | 5.2% |
| 58th | Iceland | $213.2M | -2.3% |
| 59th | Benin | $221.7M | 3.4% |
| 60th | Malta | $251.4M | -8.4% |
| 61st | Mongolia | $259.9M | -0.4% |
| 62nd | Cameroon | $269.0M | 11.3% |
| 63rd | Fiji | $272.4M | 7.9% |
| 64th | Madagascar | $299.2M | -8.5% |
| 65th | North Macedonia | $316.3M | -3.2% |
| 66th | Saudi Arabia | $317.4M | 7.4% |
| 67th | Guyana | $322.7M | 6.6% |
| 68th | Côte d'Ivoire | $342.4M | 1.8% |
| 69th | Togo | $367.2M | 0.9% |
| 70th | Qatar | $378.6M | -13.4% |
| 71st | Kazakhstan | $384.2M | 30.5% |
| 72nd | Cyprus | $386.9M | 23.3% |
| 73rd | Argentina | $391.6M | -20.8% |
| 74th | Burkina Faso | $397.4M | 3.2% |
| 75th | Hong Kong SAR, China | $399.5M | 3.3% |
| 76th | Tanzania | $402.5M | 3.8% |
| 77th | Greece | $417.2M | -18.1% |
| 78th | Slovenia | $452.0M | 13.1% |
| 79th | Lesotho | $455.3M | 30.9% |
| 80th | Montenegro | $480.8M | 2.4% |
| 81st | Estonia | $486.5M | 6.4% |
| 82nd | Panama | $502.5M | -9.3% |
| 83rd | New Zealand | $528.1M | -0.7% |
| 84th | Portugal | $545.3M | 5.5% |
| 85th | Costa Rica | $545.4M | -1.2% |
| 86th | Ireland | $575.5M | -4.7% |
| 87th | Liberia | $580.1M | -11.4% |
| 88th | French Polynesia | $581.6M | 3.1% |
| 89th | Congo, Democratic Republic of | $593.5M | -49.1% |
| 90th | Norway | $593.6M | -2.5% |
| 91st | New Caledonia | $621.1M | 1.3% |
| 92nd | Afghanistan | $627.7M | 80.1% |
| 93rd | Azerbaijan | $643.1M | -49.4% |
| 94th | Paraguay | $656.9M | 18.6% |
| 95th | South Africa | $755.4M | -8.5% |
| 96th | Mali | $827.2M | 1.3% |
| 97th | Finland | $861.0M | -0.5% |
| 98th | Israel | $963.4M | 12.9% |
| 99th | Belarus | $976.6M | 4.8% |
| 100th | Kosovo | $985.8M | 1.5% |
| 101st | Iraq | $986.4M | -1.8% |
| 102nd | South Sudan | $1.1B | -4.9% |
| 103rd | Uganda | $1.1B | 27.0% |
| 104th | Cambodia | $1.2B | 1.2% |
| 105th | Türkiye | $1.2B | -14.3% |
| 106th | Latvia | $1.2B | -7.5% |
| 107th | Bolivia, Plurinational State of | $1.2B | 4.7% |
| 108th | Denmark | $1.2B | -0.9% |
| 109th | Nicaragua | $1.3B | 5.9% |
| 110th | Lithuania | $1.3B | -6.8% |
| 111th | Canada | $1.3B | 1.2% |
| 112th | Albania | $1.3B | 1.2% |
| 113th | Armenia | $1.4B | -7.3% |
| 114th | Bermuda | $1.4B | 0.0% |
| 115th | Moldova | $1.5B | -4.7% |
| 116th | Georgia | $1.5B | 4.3% |
| 117th | Malaysia | $1.6B | -2.4% |
| 118th | Bulgaria | $1.6B | 6.9% |
| 119th | Luxembourg | $1.7B | 3.9% |
| 120th | Kenya | $1.7B | 11.2% |
| 121st | Tunisia | $1.8B | -7.6% |
| 122nd | Bosnia and Herzegovina | $1.8B | 2.5% |
| 123rd | Zimbabwe | $1.9B | -9.3% |
| 124th | Tajikistan | $1.9B | -17.3% |
| 125th | Senegal | $2.0B | 12.7% |
| 126th | Algeria | $2.0B | -0.4% |
| 127th | Kyrgyz Republic | $2.0B | 18.2% |
| 128th | Australia | $2.1B | -5.4% |
| 129th | West Bank and Gaza | $2.1B | 14.8% |
| 130th | Slovak Republic | $2.1B | 2.6% |
| 131st | Haiti | $2.2B | 1.4% |
| 132nd | Myanmar | $2.3B | 16.6% |
| 133rd | Jamaica | $2.4B | 3.1% |
| 134th | Ecuador | $2.6B | 9.4% |
| 135th | Spain | $2.6B | -1.5% |
| 136th | Brazil | $2.7B | -5.4% |
| 137th | Switzerland | $2.8B | 1.4% |
| 138th | Austria | $2.9B | 0.8% |
| 139th | Peru | $2.9B | 6.4% |
| 140th | Ghana | $3.0B | -40.2% |
| 141st | Czechia | $3.1B | 16.9% |
| 142nd | Sweden | $3.2B | -15.5% |
| 143rd | Serbia | $3.2B | -4.9% |
| 144th | Netherlands | $3.2B | -2.1% |
| 145th | Croatia | $3.2B | 20.4% |
| 146th | Yemen, Republic of | $3.8B | 12.5% |
| 147th | Japan | $3.8B | 15.2% |
| 148th | Honduras | $3.9B | 5.4% |
| 149th | Hungary | $4.2B | 5.7% |
| 150th | Jordan | $4.4B | -18.2% |
| 151st | El Salvador | $4.6B | 6.7% |
| 152nd | United Kingdom | $4.6B | -8.4% |
| 153rd | Colombia | $5.2B | 3.8% |
| 154th | Dominican Republic | $5.5B | 6.0% |
| 155th | Uzbekistan | $5.8B | 19.7% |
| 156th | Romania | $5.9B | 10.0% |
| 157th | Thailand | $6.3B | 6.4% |
| 158th | United States | $6.3B | -3.8% |
| 159th | Morocco | $6.4B | -7.5% |
| 160th | Korea | $6.5B | 0.9% |
| 161st | Nepal | $6.6B | -1.8% |
| 162nd | Russian Federation | $6.7B | -3.1% |
| 163rd | Poland | $6.8B | -1.1% |
| 164th | Sri Lanka | $7.3B | 3.7% |
| 165th | Guatemala | $7.4B | 13.6% |
| 166th | Lebanon | $7.6B | 1.7% |
| 167th | Viet Nam | $8.6B | 6.3% |
| 168th | Indonesia | $8.9B | -7.8% |
| 169th | Ukraine | $9.5B | 11.8% |
| 170th | Italy | $9.5B | -1.0% |
| 171st | Belgium | $10.8B | 3.1% |
| 172nd | Bangladesh | $13.6B | -11.3% |
| 173rd | Germany | $15.3B | 2.5% |
| 174th | Egypt, Arab Republic of | $18.6B | 1.4% |
| 175th | Nigeria | $19.7B | -4.5% |
| 176th | Pakistan | $19.8B | 2.7% |
| 177th | France | $25.6B | 0.6% |
| 178th | China | $26.9B | -18.8% |
| 179th | Mexico | $29.3B | 9.3% |
| 180th | Philippines | $31.1B | 4.5% |
| 181st | India | $62.7B | -8.9% |
| 182nd | European Union | $109.5B | 1.7% |
FAQ
What was Kenya's remittances received in 2016?▾
Kenya's remittances received in 2016 was $1.7B. This ranked 120th globally.
How did Kenya's remittances received change in 2016?▾
Kenya's remittances received increased by 11.2% in 2016 compared to 2015.
Which country had the highest remittances received in 2016?▾
European Union had the highest remittances received in 2016 at $109.5B.
What is the remittances received of Kenya in 2016?▾
The remittances received of Kenya in 2016 was $1.7B. This ranked 120th globally.
What was Kenya's remittances received in billion in 2016?▾
Kenya's remittances received in 2016 was approximately 1.74 billion ($1.7B).
How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Kenya's remittances received?▾
Kenya's remittances received went from $1.6B in 2015 to $1.7B in 2016, a 11.2% increase.
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