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Remittances total $205bn, private savings $6tn and insurance premiums $1tn.
The World Bank estimates that migrants from developing countries sent home remittances totalling $316 billion in 2009.
The World Bank estimates that last year migrant remittances totalled the equivalent of 31% of Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product (GDP).
The cost of sending money homeSOME 192m migrants 3% of the world population—sent remittances totalling $316 billion to developing countries last year, according to the World Bank.
This represents a potential loss of about US$29.8 billion (estimated remittances totalled $429 billion in 2016, compared to $429.8 billion in 2015 and $444.3 billion in 2014).
In 2001, the GDP for Somalia was estimated at around US$806 million, whereas the GNP is higher due to remittances, totalling US$300-400300-400n, from Somalis living abroad.
In a later period (1988), however, the marginal impact of remittances on total income was greater than unity: a $1 increase in remittances stimulated a $1.85 increase in total household income.
Last year, total remittances sent worldwide totaled more than $500 billion, according to Manuel Orozco, an expert at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington research group.
Second, when the migrant's risk structure across locations is such that remittances reduce the total variance of future consumption, remittances may be sent with a "precautionary investment motive".
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