Economy · Remittance inflows · Eswatini
Eswatini’s remittance inflows rose to $0.04bn in 2025.
$0.04bn
2025
Up $0.01bn from 2024.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
In plain words
$0.04bn
What it is. Personal remittances received counts the money and goods that people working abroad send to households in Eswatini, along with some earnings of short-term foreign workers. It comes from balance of payments records and is stated in current US dollars, so exchange rate moves and price changes shape the figure. Transfers carried by hand or sent through informal channels usually escape the count, so the true flow may be larger.
Higher is better. Higher is better because more remittances mean more income reaching recipient households and more foreign currency entering the economy. The latest figure, for 2025, is $0.04bn, up 16% from $0.03bn a year earlier. That earlier figure, for 2024, was the lowest since 2016, so the latest reading is a recovery from the bottom of the range. The high for the period was $0.14bn in 2017, and inflows remain far below that level.
Why it matters. For households that receive money from relatives abroad, remittances help cover everyday costs such as food and school fees. A flow of $0.04bn is much smaller than the $0.14bn received in 2017, so that support is thinner than it was. For the state, remittances add to the foreign currency coming into the country, and the 2025 rise is a small step back towards earlier levels.
| Period | Remittance inflows · Eswatini |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $0.1bn |
| 2017 | $0.14bn |
| 2018 | $0.13bn |
| 2019 | $0.12bn |
| 2020 | $0.11bn |
| 2021 | $0.13bn |
| 2022 | $0.13bn |
| 2023 | $0.08bn |
| 2024 | $0.03bn |
| 2025 | $0.04bn |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Remittance inflows, Eswatini, 2025; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/remittance-inflows/eswatini
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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.