The visualization, created by Iswardi Ishak using World Bank data, maps personal remittances received as a share of GDP across 194 economies in 2024. It shows how migration-linked income plays an outsized role in a small group of countries, compared with a global average of just 0.82%.
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How could Tajikistan's economy be almost half remittances?
At what point do you just move everyone out of there?
probably just a data cleaning thing? I can't imagine that this is an easy thing to measure for one country, let alone all of them
I suppose if most of their domestic economy is of the "shadow" variety, you could get some wild numbers like this.