Primary income receipts

Primary income receipts refer to employee compensation paid to resident workers working abroad and investment income (receipts on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments, and receipts on reserve assets). 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
Albania20251.20Bcurrent USD
Angola2025778.62Mcurrent USD
Antigua and Barbuda202528.82Mcurrent USD
Argentina20256.40Bcurrent USD
Armenia2025813.08Mcurrent USD
Australia202573.91Bcurrent USD
Austria202551.50Bcurrent USD
Azerbaijan20252.90Bcurrent USD
Bangladesh20251.64Bcurrent USD
Belarus20252.76Bcurrent USD

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