El Salvador vs Samoa: Remittance inflows to GDP

El Salvador
24.1%
in 2020
Samoa
25.3%
in 2020
El Salvador rank
8th
Samoa rank
5th

Remittance inflows to GDP over time

  • El Salvador
  • Samoa
0102030197619982020

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 25.3% against 24.1% in El Salvador, a difference of 1.2%.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times El Salvador's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1982 it was Samoa ahead.

El Salvador ranks 8th and Samoa ranks 5th of 197 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, El Salvador averaged higher in 1 and Samoa in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade El Salvador Samoa Difference Ahead
1980s 4.3% 25.1% 20.8% Samoa
1990s 11.3% 21.8% 10.6% Samoa
2000s 18.5% 15.1% 3.4% El Salvador
2010s 19.0% 19.1% 0.1% Samoa
2020s 24.1% 25.3% 1.2% Samoa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher remittance inflows to gdp, El Salvador or Samoa?
Samoa, at 25.3% against 24.1% in El Salvador as of 2020.
What is the difference in remittance inflows to gdp between El Salvador and Samoa?
1.2%, with Samoa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Samoa?
39 years are reported by both, from 1982 to 2020.
How do El Salvador and Samoa rank globally for remittance inflows to gdp?
El Salvador ranks 8th and Samoa ranks 5th of 197 countries.
Where does this data come from?
World Development Indicators (WDI), World Bank, published as Remittance inflows to GDP (%). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Remittance inflows to GDP (%)
Unit
%
Source
World Development Indicators (WDI), World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
197 places, 6,501 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Data are the sum of three items defined in the fifth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual: workers' remittances, compensation of employees, and migrants' transfers. Remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers resident in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status, to recipients in their country of origin. Migrants' transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year.