Remittance corridor · World Bank RPW · 2023Q4
Pakistan → Bangladesh
Average cost sits in the upper fleet tercile at 22.7% on this Pakistan → Bangladesh route - senders pay more than typical RPW-tracked corridors.
- 22.7%
- Average cost
- 21.8%
- Cheapest · Western Union
- 2
- Providers tracked
How the 22.7% 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 2023Q4 figures as the detail table below.
The verdict
The World Bank last surveyed Pakistan → Bangladesh in 2023Q4, and has not priced it since. Every figure on this page is that observation, so we do not rank this corridor against the 2025Q3 release: a 22.7% reading from then is not a like-for-like comparison with corridors priced years later.
- 2023Q4
- last surveyed quarter
- 22.7%
- average cost of a $200 transfer, as of 2023Q4
- Not ranked
- outside the 2025Q3 corpus ranking
- Western Union
- cheapest provider recorded in 2023Q4
Held for the historical record. Live rankings use only the 2025Q3 release.
What changed
World Bank RPW release record: 2023Q3 to 2023Q4
- Average transfer cost changed from 14.34% to 22.73% (+8.40 percentage points).
- Lowest observed transfer cost changed from 13.75% to 21.75% (+8.00 percentage points).
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Where this corridor sits by provider panel size
Pakistan → Bangladesh has 2 World Bank RPW providers among 377 tracked corridors (inventory signal, not a cost-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the cost comparison below.
Pakistan → Bangladesh vs all corridors by provider count
Where this corridor's RPW provider panel sits among every tracked route
2 370th of 377 higher than 7 of 377 corridors
Corridors, banded by RPW provider inventory
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Source World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide · 2026-08-10
How Pakistan → Bangladesh compares
Average cost of a $200 transfer, percent, lower is cheaper
22.73% average - 19.7pp above target
Cost trend: Pakistan → Bangladesh
Average and cheapest cost of a $200 transfer over time, percent
Sending Country
Receiving Country
Nearby Corridors from Pakistan
Pakistan's outbound coverage in our data is limited to a handful of corridors; here is how the other compare.
| # | Destination | Avg cost | Cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afghanistan | 4.0% | 4.0% |
World Bank RPW fee spread
Release 2023Q4 PK→BD
22.7% avg · 21.8% floor · 0.98pp spread on $200
- AVG 22.7%
- CHEAP 21.8%
- SPREAD 0.98pp
- SDG +19.7pp
- REL 2023Q4
- PANEL 2
Fee spread manifest for Pakistan → Bangladesh: entity-varying RPW stamps plus cross-sender ABS(avg_cost) peers from the current release. Compare corridors side-by-side →
High transfer cost on Pakistan → Bangladesh
World Bank RPW prices Pakistan → Bangladesh at 22.73% (2023Q4) - above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%). Senders here pay more than typical tracked corridors, 16.3 pp above the ~6.4% global average.
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 2 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 on this route have risen sharply, up 8.40 percentage points over the tracked period, a notable outlier since most tracked corridors have moved the other way. Across 28 quarters on record, average cost ranged 2.6%–29.4%, with 2 quarters at or under the UN 3% target. It sits 19.7 pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target.
About Pakistan → Bangladesh 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 22.73%; cheapest observed 21.75% via Western Union; 2 providers tracked across 28 RPW quarters; vintage 2026-08-10.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to send money from Pakistan to Bangladesh?
Average 22.73% of the transfer amount (World Bank RPW, 2023Q4) - upper fleet tercile (above ~6.6%). Cheapest observed: 21.75% via Western Union.
What is the cheapest way to send money from Pakistan to Bangladesh?
Lowest RPW survey quote: 21.75% (Western Union). Panel is low-tercile with only 2 providers tracked.
Is the Pakistan to Bangladesh corridor meeting the UN SDG cost target?
Not yet: 22.7% is 19.7pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target and in the upper fleet cost tercile.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.