The Department of Overseas Labor of Viet Nam's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said the amount of money Vietnamese guest workers sending back to their families was estimated at US$3-4 billion each year.
The number of guest workers increased from 126,000 in 2016 to 152,000 in 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Viet Nam only sent 78,000 workers abroad in 2020.
Remarkably, last year, remittances sent to Ho Chi Minh Cịty - the country's biggest economic hub - reached a record US$6.1 billion, an increase of 12 per cent year-on-year.
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Viet Nam is named in top 10 remittance recipients among low- and middle-income countries - Source: World Bank |
In South Asia, there was a slight moderation in the growth of remittance flows in 2020, to 5.2 percent.
By Thuy Dung