Primary income payments

Primary income payments refer to employee compensation paid to nonresident workers and investment income (payments on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments).This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
199
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20251.25Bcurrent USD
Angola20256.49Bcurrent USD
Antigua and Barbuda2025104.43Mcurrent USD
Argentina202520.30Bcurrent USD
Armenia20251.68Bcurrent USD
Australia2025125.36Bcurrent USD
Austria202549.77Bcurrent USD
Azerbaijan20254.89Bcurrent USD
Bangladesh20256.91Bcurrent USD
Belarus20253.87Bcurrent USD

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