Every year, migrants around the world send hundreds of billions of dollars home to their families. These remittances quietly dwarf foreign aid — yet they're taxed by fees, ignored by policy, and rarely visualised at scale.
This is a map of that money moving.
$656Bsent in 2023
6.4%avg. fee to send
3×larger than all foreign aid
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Remittance Flows
2021 data
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Trickle Down Diaspora Economics
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