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The&nbsp;United States&nbsp;was the largest source country for remittances in 2020, followed by the&nbsp;United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.&nbsp;Remittances increase or maintain consumer spending and soften the blow of economic hardship, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the WHO World report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first WHO World report on the health of refugees and migrants said that today about one in eight people in the world, some one billion, are migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report by the specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health said that in 2021 the top five remittance recipients in current US dollars were&nbsp;<strong>India, China, Mexico, the Philippines and Egypt.<\/strong> With $87 billion, India was the top remittance recipient among low- and middle-income countries, as per 2021 estimates, way ahead of China and Mexico&#8217;s 53 billion dollars, the Philippines (36 billion dollars) and Egypt (33 billion dollars).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economic recovery in 2021 followed the resilience of remittance flows seen in 2020, which declined by a modest&nbsp;<strong>1.7 per cent to USD 549 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;in the face of one of the deepest global recessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India received 87 billion dollars in remittances in 2021, the top remittance recipient, and way ahead of countries like China and Mexico, according to a World Health Organisation report released on Wednesday. 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