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Why corridor-level pricing matters
International remittances are not a single market. Each sender-receiver corridor has its own competitive dynamics, regulatory environment, payment-rail mix, and currency-margin structure. A global summary can obscure that variation. The World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) panel records corridor-level observations each quarter, which is why corridor-level browsing, rather than a single country-level number, is the right unit of analysis.
PlainRemit organizes corridors by sender country, receiver country, and cost ranking. These views help readers locate the relevant historical survey record; they are not live provider recommendations.
Each corridor page combines the latest surveyed quarter's average cost, the lowest observed cost, the provider count, and a quarter-over-quarter trend where records exist. National WDI inflow and outflow totals appear only as country-level context; they are not bilateral corridor volumes.
The methodology section below explains the underlying RPW survey design. In short: each quarter, mystery-shopping researchers contact every tracked provider on a corridor and request a quote for sending USD 200 from origin to destination. The reported cost combines (a) the explicit service fee and (b) the implicit exchange-rate margin (the gap between the provider's offered rate and the interbank mid-market rate at the same instant). Both components are real costs to the sender, which is why both are included.
Methodology
PlainRemit is built on the Source: World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) Database, a quarterly benchmark of money-transfer costs covering the world's largest remittance corridors. Costs are measured as a percentage of a $200 transfer amount, inclusive of service fee and exchange-rate margin, the two levers that determine what a sender actually pays.
Every corridor, country, and ranking page on this site labels the processed RPW release. Cost rankings are deterministic queries against that panel, with no editorial weighting, paid placements, or scoring adjustments.
Comparative benchmarks reference the Source: UN Sustainable Development Goal 10.c target, reduce average remittance transaction costs to below 3% by 2030. Corridor pages show how their recorded survey cost compares with that target and with other observations in the same published dataset.
Download the corridor cost extract cited on this page: remittance-corridor-costs.csv (World Bank RPW · CC0).