Remittance corridor · World Bank RPW · 2025Q3
Australia → Lebanon
Provider panel is high-tercile (15 RPW providers) on Australia → Lebanon - denser competition than the bulk of the corridor book.
- 10.7%
- Average cost
- 2.4%
- Cheapest · Citibank
- 15
- Providers tracked
How the 10.7% average cost breaks down
World Bank RPW splits total remittance cost into the provider's transaction fee and the exchange-rate margin applied to the transfer. Same 2025Q3 figures as the detail table below.
Provider-panel tercile vs fleet
RPW lists 15 providers on this corridor - above the fleet panel tercile (~9). Average cost is 10.7%.
- #302 of 348
- cheapest-cost corpus rank
- 10.7%
- average cost of a $200 transfer
- +3.4pp
- vs the 7.3% average of 348 corridors
- +7.7pp
- gap to the UN 3% target
Compared against the 348 corridors in the 2025Q3 release, not a generic headline figure.
Based on average cost, delivery speed, FX margin, provider competition, and cost trend from World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide data, benchmarked against all 348 tracked corridors - not a quote or a prediction of what you will pay.
What changed
World Bank RPW release record: 2025Q1 to 2025Q3
- Average transfer cost changed from 10.25% to 10.67% (+0.41 percentage points).
- Lowest observed transfer cost changed from 2.53% to 2.39% (-0.14 percentage points).
- Providers recorded by the source changed from 14 to 15 (+1 provider).
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Where this corridor sits by provider panel size
Australia → Lebanon has 15 World Bank RPW providers among 377 tracked corridors (inventory signal, not a cost-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the cost comparison below.
Australia → Lebanon vs all corridors by provider count
Where this corridor's RPW provider panel sits among every tracked route
15 13th of 377 higher than 364 of 377 corridors
Corridors, banded by RPW provider inventory
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Source World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide · 2026-08-10
How Australia → Lebanon compares
Average cost of a $200 transfer, percent, lower is cheaper
10.67% average - 7.7pp above target
Cost trend: Australia → Lebanon
Average and cheapest cost of a $200 transfer over time, percent
Sending Country
Receiving Country
Nearby Corridors from Australia
Australia is one of the most connected sending markets in our data, with 19 tracked outbound corridors. The 8 below span the widest cost range, from the cheapest to send anywhere from Australia through to the most expensive.
World Bank RPW fee spread
Release 2025Q3 AU→LB
10.7% avg · 2.4% floor · 8.28pp spread on $200
- AVG 10.7%
- CHEAP 2.4%
- SPREAD 8.28pp
- SDG +7.7pp
- RANK #302 of 348
- REL 2025Q3
- PANEL 15
Cross-sender cost peers
Fee spread manifest for Australia → Lebanon: entity-varying RPW stamps plus cross-sender ABS(avg_cost) peers from the current release. Compare corridors side-by-side →
Dense provider panel on Australia → Lebanon
RPW records 15 providers on Australia → Lebanon - above the fleet panel tercile (~9). Average cost is 10.67% on $200 sends.
That cheapest figure comes from the World Bank's mystery-shopping survey: trained researchers pose as customers and obtain real quotes for a standardized $200 transfer, across the 15 banks, money transfer operators, post offices and mobile-money providers RPW tracks on this corridor. It is a snapshot from that survey quarter, not a live guarantee -- confirm the current rate directly with the provider before sending.
Costs here have crept up 0.41 percentage points over the tracked period, bucking the wider trend toward cheaper transfers seen on most corridors. Across 46 quarters on record, average cost ranged 10.1%–13.6%, with 0 quarters at or under the UN 3% target. It sits 7.7 pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target.
About Australia → Lebanon data
PlainRemit compares international money-transfer costs across tracked corridors so you can see which routes and providers charge the least before you send money abroad. This corridor's figures are computed directly from the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) quarterly survey, a mystery-shopping panel of actual transfer quotes for a standardized $200 transfer.
Average 10.67%; cheapest observed 2.39% via Citibank; 15 providers tracked across 46 RPW quarters; vintage 2026-08-10.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to send money from Australia to Lebanon?
Average 10.67% of the transfer amount (World Bank RPW, 2025Q3) - upper fleet tercile (above ~6.6%). Cheapest observed: 2.39% via Citibank.
What is the cheapest way to send money from Australia to Lebanon?
Lowest RPW survey quote: 2.39% (Citibank). Panel is high-tercile with 15 providers tracked.
Is the Australia to Lebanon corridor meeting the UN SDG cost target?
Not yet: 10.7% is 7.7pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target and in the upper fleet cost tercile.
Where does Australia → Lebanon sit among tracked remittance corridors?
According to World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide average cost among 348 tracked corridors on PlainRemit, Australia → Lebanon ranks #302 of 348 (cheapest = #1). Ordinal uses latest_avg_cost ASC matching /rankings/cheapest. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.