During December 2014, the inflow of worker's remittances amounted to $1,583.23 million, which is 20% higher than November 2014 and 14.32% higher than December 2013, says a statement issued by the State Bank of Pakistan on Monday.
According to SBP, the country wise details for the month of December 2014 shows that inflows from Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, GCC countries (including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman) and EU countries amounted to $499.08 million, $352.37million, $222.45 million, $188.34 million, $189.22 million and $30.34 million respectively compared with the inflow of $410.03 million, $275.16 million, $223.99 million, $177.11 million, $165.05 million and $37.43 million respectively in December 2013.
Remittances received from Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan and other countries during December 2014 amounted to $101.43 million together as against $96.17 million received in December 2013.