Remittance corridor · World Bank RPW · 2025Q3
Saudi Arabia → Yemen
Average cost sits in the lower fleet tercile at 2.7% on this Saudi Arabia → Yemen route - cheaper than most RPW peers.
- 2.7%
- Average cost
- 2.3%
- Cheapest · MoneyGram
- 4
- Providers tracked
How the 2.7% 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.
Corridor-cost tercile vs fleet
Saudi Arabia → Yemen posts 2.7% average cost, below the fleet lower tercile (~4.3%), ranking #19 of 348. Cheapest tracked floor: 2.3% via MoneyGram.
- #19 of 348
- cheapest-cost corpus rank
- 2.7%
- average cost of a $200 transfer
- -4.5pp
- vs the 7.3% average of 348 corridors
- Met
- 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 2.36% to 2.69% (+0.34 percentage points).
- Lowest observed transfer cost changed from 0.77% to 2.30% (+1.53 percentage points).
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Where this corridor sits by provider panel size
Saudi Arabia → Yemen has 4 World Bank RPW providers among 377 tracked corridors (inventory signal, not a cost-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the cost comparison below.
Saudi Arabia → Yemen vs all corridors by provider count
Where this corridor's RPW provider panel sits among every tracked route
4 337th of 377 higher than 40 of 377 corridors
Corridors, banded by RPW provider inventory
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more corridors. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide · 2026-08-10
How Saudi Arabia → Yemen compares
Average cost of a $200 transfer, percent, lower is cheaper
2.69% average - target met
Cost trend: Saudi Arabia → Yemen
Average and cheapest cost of a $200 transfer over time, percent
Sending Country
Receiving Country
Nearby Corridors from Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is one of the most connected sending markets in our data, with 16 tracked outbound corridors. The 8 below span the widest cost range, from the cheapest to send anywhere from Saudi Arabia through to the most expensive.
| # | Destination | Avg cost | Cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sri Lanka | 3.3% | 3.0% |
| 2 | Indonesia | 3.5% | 2.9% |
| 3 | Philippines | 3.8% | 2.6% |
| 4 | South Sudan | 4.8% | 4.8% |
| 5 | Pakistan | 5.0% | 1.4% |
| 6 | Nepal | 5.0% | 3.1% |
| 7 | Egypt | 5.1% | 2.6% |
| 8 | Lebanon | 5.6% | 5.5% |
World Bank RPW fee spread
Release 2025Q3 SA→YE
2.7% avg · 2.3% floor · 0.40pp spread on $200
- AVG 2.7%
- CHEAP 2.3%
- SPREAD 0.40pp
- SDG MET
- RANK #19 of 348
- REL 2025Q3
- PANEL 4
Cross-sender cost peers
Fee spread manifest for Saudi Arabia → Yemen: entity-varying RPW stamps plus cross-sender ABS(avg_cost) peers from the current release. Compare corridors side-by-side →
Low transfer cost on Saudi Arabia → Yemen
World Bank RPW prices Saudi Arabia → Yemen at 2.69% (2025Q3) - below the fleet lower tercile (~4.3%). That places this route among cheaper corridors on the panel, 3.7 pp under 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 4 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 0.34 percentage points over the tracked period, bucking the wider trend toward cheaper transfers seen on most corridors. It currently meets the UN SDG 10.c 3% target.
Saudi Arabia → Yemen Long-Track Cost Profile
This is a high-depth World Bank RPW corridor (54 quarterly average-cost readings) - enough history to measure how concentrated the cost path has been, not just the latest quarter. Peak average cost on record was 5.5% in 2018Q4; the trough was 2.1% in 2016Q2. That 3.49pp peak-to-trough span is the multi-year envelope thin-history corridors cannot show.
Across the full 54-quarter panel, 24 readings (44.4% share) landed at or under the UN SDG 3% target. Population standard deviation of the average-cost series is 1.055pp - a wide swing band that rewards checking the current quarter. From 2024Q2 to 2025Q3, the average cost rose 0.14pp (2.6% → 2.7%).
Among the 16 outbound corridors tracked from Saudi Arabia, 0 currently post a lower average cost than this route and 16 post a higher one (this corridor sits at 2.7%). That peer-rank read is only honest once the sender book is deep enough - sparse zero-history routes skip it because sibling counts alone do not make a long RPW track record.
About Saudi Arabia → Yemen 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 2.69%; cheapest observed 2.30% via MoneyGram; 4 providers tracked across 54 RPW quarters; vintage 2026-08-10.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to send money from Saudi Arabia to Yemen?
Average 2.69% of the transfer amount (World Bank RPW, 2025Q3) - lower fleet tercile (below ~4.3%). Cheapest observed: 2.30% via MoneyGram.
What is the cheapest way to send money from Saudi Arabia to Yemen?
Lowest RPW survey quote: 2.30% (MoneyGram). Panel is low-tercile with only 4 providers tracked.
Is the Saudi Arabia to Yemen corridor meeting the UN SDG cost target?
Yes: 2.7% is at or under the UN SDG 10.c 3% target and sits in the lower fleet cost tercile.
Where does Saudi Arabia → Yemen sit among tracked remittance corridors?
According to World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide average cost among 348 tracked corridors on PlainRemit, Saudi Arabia → Yemen ranks #19 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.