What Changed in the Latest World Bank RPW Release
A fresh report every release: how many corridors got cheaper vs. more expensive, the whole-market average move, and whether any corridor gained or lost provider coverage entirely.
Research
Original data research from the PlainRemit. Every number here is pulled directly from our live database; nothing is hardcoded. Data from the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) database, which benchmarks the cost of sending money across global corridors against the UN Sustainable Development Goal target of 3%; see our methodology.
What can you learn from PlainRemit research?
What this research covers
PlainRemit research ranks corridors and receiving countries from the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide extract (377 corridors across 138 countries; latest-release average send cost 7.3%), answering one cost or inflow question per study.
- 377
- tracked corridors
- 138
- countries
- 7.3%
- latest-release avg cost
- 4
- published studies
Studies below answer one ranking or longitudinal-cost question each from the live RPW extract; they are descriptive price summaries, not transfer advice.
Have remittances actually got cheaper? 12 years of World Bank cost data
The other pages here rank the latest release. This one holds the corridor set fixed and follows it across every release the World Bank has published, so the series shows price rather than which routes were surveyed - and finds the median and the mean moving in opposite directions since 2022.
10 Most Expensive Global Remittance Corridors
PlainRemit ranks the most expensive global money-transfer corridors by the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide latest-quarter average send cost as a percentage of the transferred amount.
10 Cheapest Global Remittance Corridors
PlainRemit ranks the cheapest global money-transfer corridors by the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide latest-quarter average send cost, rendered live from the corridors table.
10 Largest Remittance-Receiving Countries by Annual Inflow
PlainRemit ranks the top remittance-receiving countries by total annual remittance inflow in USD billions per the World Bank Annual Remittance Data, rendered live from the countries table.
Download the corridor cost extract cited on this page: remittance-corridor-costs.csv (World Bank RPW · CC0).