Overseas Pakistani workers remit $7,478m in four months

Author: PPI

Overseas Pakistani workers remitted US$7478.90 million in the first four months (July to October) of FY20, compared with US$7617.89 million received during the same period in the preceding year. During October 2019, the inflow of workers remittances amounted to US$2,000.80 million, which is 14.46% higher than September 2019 and 2.88% lower than October 2018. The country wise details for the month of October 2019 show that inflows from Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, GCC countries (including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman) and EU countries amounted to US$468.18million, US$398.96million, US$322.38million, US$328.69million, US$191.77million and US$60.94million respectively compared with the inflow of US$494.53million, US$419.41million, US$325.19million, US$322.29million, US$200.87million and US$57.42million respectively in October 2018. Remittances received from Malaysia, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan and other countries during October 2019 amounted to US$229.88 million together as against US$240.57 million received inOctober2018.

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