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Economy

Average Remittance Costs Of Sending US$200 As A Proportion Of The Amount Remitted, Annual

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: GLOBAL SDG INDICATORS DATABASE

Data Last Updated: 21/08/2026

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: The Smart Remitter Target (SmarRT) is calculated as the simple average as the three cheapest services for sending the equivalent of $200 in each corridor and is expressed in terms of the percentage of the total amount sent. Data are used for SDG 10.c.1 'Remittance costs as a proportion of the amount remitted'. Please refer to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Global Metadata (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata) for more information on SDG 10.c.1.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M701181

Data from Jan 2016 to Dec 2023

Last updated 1 day ago (8 Sep 2026)

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AverageRemittanceCostsOfSendingUS200AsAProportionOfTheAmountRemittedAnnual.csv (19 rows, 1.6 KB)

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2019
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(Null)5.3%
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Average Remittance Costs Of Sending US$200 From Singapore As A Proportion Of The Amount Remittedna4.14.13.73.344.14.6
Received In Bangladesh2.39.28.832.12.53.53.1
Received In China7.24.23.34.36.38.27.17.6
Received In India2.82.22.13.21.83.82.22.7
Received In Indonesia4.93.33.33.52.93.64.24.1
Received In Malaysia5.13.95.85.74.64.55.16
Received In Pakistan13.85.34.85.24.27.312.211.1
Received In Philippines32.632.52.32.72.43.5
Received In Sri Lanka2.53.72.932.93.53.73.1
Received In Thailand5.54.64.84.85.35.15.55.4
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dataset_id = "d_9a723439157ed2697a8759a1480a5d0e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Average Remittance Costs Of Sending US$200 As A Proportion Of The Amount Remitted, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9a723439157ed2697a8759a1480a5d0e/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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