{"id":28823,"date":"2018-12-18T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=28823"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:16:36","slug":"nigerians-residing-in-uk-top-list-of-money-senders-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nigerians-residing-in-uk-top-list-of-money-senders-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Residing In UK Top List Of Money Senders \u2014World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigerians in the UK have emerged the highest senders of money to their home country with \u00a33.27m being sent in 2017.<\/p>\n

According to a World Bank report, Nigeria was the top receiver of cash from the UK, followed by India, France and Pakistan,\u00a0reports\u00a0Daily Mail.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This makes the UK the fourth largest source of remittances after the US,\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0and the United Arab Emirates, with a global total of some \u00a3483bn in 2017.<\/p>\n

While migrants in the UK were sending large amounts of cash back home, Australia was the largest sender of remittances to the United Kingdom, with US$1.08m being received from there.<\/p>\n

The US, Canada, Spain and South Africa were the next biggest senders to the UK.<\/p>

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The World Bank report revealed that,\u00a0India is the largest receiver of remittances in the world, receiving a total of US$68,968m.<\/p>\n

China is the second largest receiver of remittances, after India, receiving a total of US$63,860m.<\/p>\n

The US is home to the largest number of migrants from developing countries and is the largest sender of remittances in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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