Economy · Remittance inflows · DR Congo
DR Congo’s remittance inflows rose to $3.3bn in 2025.
$3.3bn
2025
Up $1.3bn from 2024.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
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$3.3bn
What it is. Personal remittances received counts money and goods that people abroad send to households in DR Congo, in current US dollars. It adds transfers between households to the pay of workers abroad on short stays. Cash carried by couriers and other informal routes often escape official records, so the recorded total tends to understate what arrives.
Higher is better. Higher is better because remittances give recipient households extra spending power and bring in foreign currency without adding to debt. The latest figure, for 2025, is $3.3bn, up from $2bn a year earlier, a rise of 65.9%. That is the top of its range since 2016, well above the low of $0.59bn recorded in 2016.
Why it matters. In DR Congo, $3.3bn arriving from abroad supports household budgets for daily needs where wages and public services are thin. It also gives the state and the banks a larger supply of dollars. Part of the jump may come from more transfers passing through recorded channels, so the next annual figure will show whether the new level holds.
| Period | Remittance inflows · DR Congo |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $0.59bn |
| 2017 | $1.1bn |
| 2018 | $1.8bn |
| 2019 | $2.1bn |
| 2020 | $1.2bn |
| 2021 | $1.3bn |
| 2022 | $3.3bn |
| 2023 | $3.3bn |
| 2024 | $2bn |
| 2025 | $3.3bn |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Remittance inflows, DR Congo, 2025; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/remittance-inflows/dr-congo
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Personal remittances received, current US dollars. Unit: USD bn.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.