Australia → Pakistan

What the Australia → Pakistan Data Tells Us

Sending money from Australia to Pakistan currently costs an average of 2.13% of the transfer amount, according to World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) data as of 2025Q1. That is 4.6 percentage points below the 6.7% average of the 322 corridors we track, and well under the World Bank's reported global average of about 6.4% - a relatively affordable route. It also meets the UN SDG 10.c target of 3% or below, an outcome only a minority of the world's corridors currently achieve.

On the cheapest end of the market, Sydney Forex Pty Ltd delivers this corridor at 0.05% - the floor price a Australia-based sender can realistically access today. The full panel includes 8 tracked providers.

This corridor moves roughly $800M in remittances each year, so even a one-percentage-point reduction in cost would return tens of millions of dollars annually to families in Pakistan. Costs here have eased 0.72 percentage points over the tracked period, a real if modest gain for senders as competition increased.

Across the 53 quarters of World Bank RPW data on record for this corridor, the average cost has ranged from 2.1% to 10.9%, and 5 of those 53 quarters (9%) met the UN SDG 3% target outright. Quarter-to-quarter pricing on this route has swung considerably (2.10pp standard deviation across the full record) - worth checking the current quarter's reading specifically rather than relying on the long-run average.