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The "Remitters' Average" is based on the total number of respondents who sent remittances in at least one of the above identified forms, thus it excludes those who did not remit in any form.
Compare that to the $40bn that diaspora Africans sent home in remittances in 2010.
Tajikistan is the country most dependent on remittances in the world.
Entire villages in Poland and Greece survived off such homely remittances in the 1950's.
The World Bank estimates the total flow of remittances in the world is nearly $350bn£224bnbn) per year.
Remittances in hard currency funnelled through hawala (Islamic word-of-mouth banks) may have more to do with it.
Indians abroad sent home $49 billion, making the country the world's biggest recipient of remittances in 2009.
Lebanon, for instance, gathered $7.6 billion in remittances in 2009, just over 15% of the amount that India received.
Remittances in 2008 grew more slowly than in previous years, but there has been no overall drop.
These migrants supply Lebanon with about $1,400 per capita every year, Mr. Ghobril said — one of the highest rates of remittances in the world.
The leading recipient of "officially recorded" remittances in 2012 was India with $69bn, followed by China ($60bn), the Philippines ($24bn), Mexico ($23bn) and Nigeria and Egypt ($21bn each).
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