Foreign workers' remittances

The data on foreign workers' remittances report the transfers of money sent abroad by foreign workers by means of payment institutions or other authorized intermediaries without using bank accounts (settlement in cash).

Published data are updated quarterly; since 2016 data are available on a quarterly basis with the breakdown by receiving foreign country; on an annual basis they are available with the additional detail of the Italian province where the sender is located.

Foreign workers' remittances sent abroad in the second quarter of 2025

In the second quarter of 2025, remittances sent abroad by foreign residents in Italy increased by 6.4 percent compared with the same period of the previous year (Table 1). The marked rise in flows directed to Asia (+17.8 percent) and the more moderate increases in remittances to North Africa and the Near East (+3.4 percent) and to European countries outside the European Union (+1.6 percent) more than offset the decline in remittances both to sub-Saharan Africa (-7.0 percent) and to EU countries (-6.4 percent). Flows to Central and South America remained broadly stable (+0.7 percent).

Over the four quarters ending in June 2025, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Morocco were the top three recipient countries of remittances from Italy, with the first accounting for 18.8 percent of total outflows and the other two for 6.7 percent each (table 2).

Table 1: Workers' remittances sent abroad from Italy

(millions of euros, percentage changes, percentage shares)

Table 1