Release-over-release change · World Bank RPW · 2025Q3
Which corridors changed the most
The World Bank refreshes its Remittance Prices Worldwide panel every release. Most corridors barely move, these are the ones that did, ranked by the size of the swing between this release and the prior one.
- -6.21 pp
- Biggest improvement · Germany→Serbia
- +15.21 pp
- Biggest increase · Brazil→Bolivia
- 50
- corridors ranked here
The verdict
Germany to Serbia posted this release's biggest improvement, cost down -6.21 pp to 2.5% - while Brazil to Bolivia moved the other way, up +15.21 pp to 22.6%.
- -6.21 pp
- Germany→Serbia, cheapest mover
- +15.21 pp
- Brazil→Bolivia, biggest increase
- 25
- improved this release
- 25
- got more expensive
Computed from 17,184 quarterly corridor price observations in the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide database, spanning 2011Q1 to 2025Q3. Each corridor's change is its own two most recent releases, 2025Q3 against the one before it, the World Bank panel is irregular, so "prior release" is not always exactly one calendar quarter back. No number here is estimated: a corridor with no second observation simply cannot appear in this ranking, and does not, rather than showing a fabricated zero change.
Most improved corridors
Biggest average-cost decrease since the prior release.
| # | Corridor | Change | Now (2025Q3) | Prior release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany → Serbia | -6.21 pp | 2.5% | 8.7% |
| 2 | Germany → Ghana | -5.43 pp | 4.4% | 9.9% |
| 3 | South Africa → Malawi | -4.71 pp | 38.6% | 43.3% |
| 4 | Brazil → Paraguay | -3.34 pp | 8.2% | 11.5% |
| 5 | Netherlands → Indonesia | -3.33 pp | 4.3% | 7.6% |
| 6 | United Kingdom → Ethiopia | -3.23 pp | 4.3% | 7.6% |
| 7 | Italy → Egypt | -3.16 pp | 9.0% | 12.2% |
| 8 | United States → Cuba | -2.85 pp | 8.8% | 11.6% |
| 9 | Italy → Tunisia | -2.54 pp | 5.7% | 8.3% |
| 10 | Belgium → Congo, Rep. | -2.48 pp | 3.2% | 5.6% |
| 11 | United Kingdom → Ghana | -2.37 pp | 4.5% | 6.9% |
| 12 | United Kingdom → Nigeria | -2.36 pp | 2.0% | 4.4% |
| 13 | United Kingdom → Albania | -2.32 pp | 5.8% | 8.2% |
| 14 | Italy → Ecuador | -2.32 pp | 8.1% | 10.4% |
| 15 | Brazil → Peru | -2.30 pp | 7.1% | 9.4% |
| 16 | Italy → Brazil | -2.27 pp | 6.5% | 8.8% |
| 17 | Germany → Bosnia and Herzegovina | -2.25 pp | 4.9% | 7.1% |
| 18 | Spain → China | -2.19 pp | 5.3% | 7.5% |
| 19 | Italy → China | -2.19 pp | 5.9% | 8.0% |
| 20 | Germany → Hungary | -2.18 pp | 7.2% | 9.4% |
| 21 | Jordan → Syria | -2.18 pp | 7.4% | 9.6% |
| 22 | Italy → Ethiopia | -1.91 pp | 5.8% | 7.7% |
| 23 | Portugal → Brazil | -1.91 pp | 5.3% | 7.2% |
| 24 | Switzerland → Albania | -1.83 pp | 7.1% | 8.9% |
| 25 | France → Cameroon | -1.77 pp | 3.1% | 4.8% |
Biggest cost increases
Biggest average-cost increase since the prior release.
| # | Corridor | Change | Now (2025Q3) | Prior release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil → Bolivia | +15.21 pp | 22.6% | 7.4% |
| 2 | Turkey → Bulgaria | +13.86 pp | 118.2% | 104.3% |
| 3 | Japan → China | +9.59 pp | 18.5% | 8.9% |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia → Sudan | +9.59 pp | 13.4% | 3.8% |
| 5 | Spain → Bolivia | +9.00 pp | 15.8% | 6.8% |
| 6 | Japan → Philippines | +6.85 pp | 12.9% | 6.0% |
| 7 | Switzerland → Kosovo | +5.45 pp | 12.9% | 7.4% |
| 8 | South Africa → India | +5.31 pp | 16.4% | 11.1% |
| 9 | South Africa → Angola | +4.99 pp | 21.4% | 16.4% |
| 10 | Rwanda → Kenya | +4.85 pp | 22.6% | 17.7% |
| 11 | South Africa → Tanzania | +3.40 pp | 17.3% | 13.9% |
| 12 | New Zealand → Vanuatu | +2.79 pp | 11.2% | 8.4% |
| 13 | Ghana → Nigeria | +2.73 pp | 13.3% | 10.6% |
| 14 | Australia → India | +2.49 pp | 6.4% | 3.9% |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates → Yemen | +2.37 pp | 7.5% | 5.2% |
| 16 | Australia → Vanuatu | +1.95 pp | 12.8% | 10.8% |
| 17 | Tanzania → Kenya | +1.82 pp | 60.0% | 58.2% |
| 18 | Sweden → China | +1.61 pp | 7.2% | 5.6% |
| 19 | Kenya → Tanzania | +1.60 pp | 13.4% | 11.8% |
| 20 | Oman → Bangladesh | +1.60 pp | 8.1% | 6.5% |
| 21 | South Africa → Botswana | +1.59 pp | 16.4% | 14.9% |
| 22 | Italy → Kosovo | +1.56 pp | 12.6% | 11.0% |
| 23 | South Africa → Nigeria | +1.52 pp | 14.7% | 13.1% |
| 24 | United Arab Emirates → Bangladesh | +1.50 pp | 7.7% | 6.2% |
| 25 | South Africa → Mozambique | +1.42 pp | 10.3% | 8.9% |
Why corridor costs move between releases
A corridor's average cost is the mean of every provider quote the World Bank surveys for that sender-receiver pair. It moves for a handful of concrete reasons: a new low-cost fintech enters or exits the corridor and shifts the average, an incumbent bank or money-transfer operator changes its published fee schedule, exchange-rate margins widen or narrow with currency volatility, or the mix of providers surveyed simply changes release to release. A large single-release swing is usually one of these events, not gradual market drift.
Reading this ranking: "most improved" means senders on that corridor now pay less on average than they did last release, not that the corridor is cheap in absolute terms, a corridor can improve sharply and still cost far more than the UN's 3% target. Conversely a corridor near the top of the cost-increase table may still be inexpensive overall, it just got more expensive relative to itself.
Download the corridor cost extract cited on this page: remittance-corridor-costs.csv (World Bank RPW · CC0).
About this ranking
This ranking is sorted by "change", the difference in average cost (percentage points) between each corridor's two most recent quarterly World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) observations.
Every figure on PlainRemit is rendered directly from World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Change figures are computed directly from consecutive World Bank RPW quarterly releases, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.