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The country will be the eighth largest remittance recipient in the world and the third largest in the Asia-Pacific region in 2021.
In 2020, Vietnamese abroad sent home more than 17billion USD.
According the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief released recently, remittances to low- and middle-income countries are projected to have grown 7.3% to reach nearly 590 billion USD in 2021.