Of the about $6.2 billion of OFW money sent to the Philippines for the first 4 months of 2011,
about 13.24 percent or $822.43 million came from OFWs working in other Asian countries, according to data compiled by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
With a growth rate of 442%, remittances from Mongolia showed the highest rate of increase compared to remittances in the first 4 months of 2010. India followed, with an increase rate of almost 102%. The biggest drop rates were seen in remittances from Pakistan, Macau, Maldive Islands and Vietnam.
| Rank Asian Country | Remittance Jan-Apr 2011 |
| in US dollars | |
| 1. Japan | 296.40 million |
| 2. Singapore | 255.37 million |
| 3. Hongkong | 121.54 million |
| 4. Taiwan | 51.75 million |
| 5. South Korea | 44.75 million |
| 6. Malaysia | 31.63 million |
| 7. China | 8.76 million |
| 8. Indonesia | 5.14 million |
| 9. Thailand | 2.07 million |
| 10. Brunei | 1.41 million |
| 11. India | 1.19 million |
| 12. Vietnam | 777 thousand |
| 13. Cambodia | 339 thousand |
| 14. Mongolia | 320 thousand |
| 15. Macau | 266 thousand |
| 16. Sri Lanka | 206 thousand |
| 17. Afghanistan | 148 thousand |
| 18. Laos | 119 thousand |
| 19. Bangladesh | 110 thousand |
| 20. Maldive Islands | 47 thousand |
| 21. Pakistan | 34 thousand |
| 22. Nepal | 33 thousand |
| 23. East Timor | 1 thousand |
| – Bhutan | 0 |
| – Myanmar | 0 |
| – North Korea | 0 |
Note for North Korea: A total of US$ 7.55 million were remitted from North Korea from 2006 to 2007. According to a 2006 issue of Manila Standard Today, some Filipinos worked during those years for United Nations agencies and the British-American Tobacco Co. and the others were musicians.
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