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 first quarter of 2026

In the first quarter of 2026, remittances sent abroad by foreign residents in Italy decreased by 2.2 per cent compared with the same period of the previous year (Table 1). The decline mainly reflects a reduction in remittances sent to Asia (€ -28.2 million; -3.1 per cent) and to Sub-Saharan Africa (€ -18.7 million; -7.5 per cent); only non-EU European countries recorded a modest increase (€1,9 million; +0.7 per cent).

Over the four quarters ending in March 2026, Bangladesh, India and Morocco were the top three recipient countries of remittances from Italy: the first accounted for 19.5 per cent of total outward flows, while the latter two received 6.9 and 6.8 per cent, respectively (Table 2).

Table 1: Workers' remittances sent abroad from Italy

(millions of euros, percentage changes, percentage shares)

Tavola 1

Table 2: Shares of the ten largest recipients of workers' remittances from Italy

(four quarters moving average; percentage shares)

Tavola 2

Note: countries are listed in descending order of share in the most recent period.

Publish date::09 July 2026
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