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How the cost of sending money abroad has changed

The World Bank has surveyed money-transfer providers since 2016. This page follows the median cost of sending USD 200 from Q2 2016 to Q3 2025 (35 survey periods) in the corridors on this site. Total cost is the fee plus the exchange-rate margin, as a share of the amount sent. Historical survey data, not live prices.

Median cost over time

Across corridors, the median cost was 4.19% in Q2 2016 and 2.88% in Q3 2025. Of the 48 corridors with at least 6 survey periods, the median cost fell in 35 and rose in 13 between each corridor’s first and latest period.

0%1%2%3%4%5%201720202023
Values by period
Median over corridors of each corridor’s median cost for USD 200
PeriodCorridorsMedian cost
Q2 2016474.19%
Q3 2016474.14%
Q4 2016474.22%
Q1 2017474.09%
Q2 2017474.26%
Q3 2017473.88%
Q4 2017474.32%
Q1 2018474.19%
Q2 2018474.05%
Q3 2018473.94%
Q4 2018474.04%
Q1 2019483.72%
Q2 2019483.78%
Q3 2019483.76%
Q4 2019483.71%
Q1 2020483.71%
Q2 2020483.46%
Q3 2020483.67%
Q4 2020483.34%
Q1 2021483.40%
Q2 2021483.25%
Q3 2021483.07%
Q4 2021483.00%
Q1 2022482.83%
Q2 2022482.97%
Q3 2022483.08%
Q4 2022483.00%
Q1 2023483.00%
Q2 2023482.88%
Q3 2023483.00%
Q4 2023483.00%
Q1 2024482.98%
Q2 2024483.16%
Q1 2025482.88%
Q3 2025482.88%

Each corridor, from the biggest fall to the biggest rise

The line next to each corridor is its median cost over time. The largest fall was in SEK → INR and the largest rise in AED → BDT. Tap a corridor to see the providers and their costs.

  1. SEK → INR

    Q2 2016: 8.68%. Q3 2025: 2.92%, 9 providers.

  2. AUD → INR

    Q2 2016: 6.67%. Q3 2025: 2.28%, 22 providers.

  3. GBP → NGN

    Q2 2016: 5.00%. Q3 2025: 0.64%, 9 providers.

  4. CAD → INR

    Q2 2016: 5.64%. Q3 2025: 2.10%, 13 providers.

  5. GBP → NPR

    Q2 2016: 5.13%. Q3 2025: 1.63%, 6 providers.

  6. USD → NGN

    Q2 2016: 4.00%. Q3 2025: 0.55%, 6 providers.

  7. USD → IDR

    Q2 2016: 8.31%. Q3 2025: 4.87%, 9 providers.

  8. GBP → PHP

    Q2 2016: 5.31%. Q3 2025: 2.18%, 10 providers.

  9. QAR → PKR

    Q2 2016: 3.52%. Q3 2025: 0.45%, 4 providers.

  10. USD → NPR

    Q2 2016: 5.17%. Q3 2025: 2.11%, 9 providers.

  11. CAD → PHP

    Q2 2016: 5.77%. Q3 2025: 2.71%, 14 providers.

  12. EUR → INR

    Q2 2016: 5.36%. Q3 2025: 2.87%, 32 providers.

  13. AUD → PHP

    Q2 2016: 4.57%. Q3 2025: 2.14%, 15 providers.

  14. CAD → PKR

    Q2 2016: 5.88%. Q3 2025: 3.50%, 7 providers.

  15. GBP → INR

    Q2 2016: 3.93%. Q3 2025: 1.56%, 12 providers.

  16. USD → ZAR

    Q2 2016: 7.28%. Q3 2025: 4.92%, 7 providers.

  17. USD → EGP

    Q2 2016: 5.38%. Q3 2025: 3.09%, 5 providers.

  18. AUD → PKR

    Q2 2016: 4.14%. Q3 2025: 1.89%, 9 providers.

  19. GBP → ZAR

    Q2 2016: 7.72%. Q3 2025: 5.57%, 9 providers.

  20. SAR → EGP

    Q2 2016: 5.55%. Q3 2025: 3.44%, 7 providers.

  21. SGD → IDR

    Q2 2016: 4.62%. Q3 2025: 2.69%, 19 providers.

  22. SGD → INR

    Q2 2016: 3.70%. Q3 2025: 1.90%, 14 providers.

  23. QAR → NPR

    Q2 2016: 5.08%. Q3 2025: 3.55%, 6 providers.

  24. AED → PHP

    Q2 2016: 3.72%. Q3 2025: 2.33%, 9 providers.

  25. GBP → PKR

    Q2 2016: 2.96%. Q3 2025: 1.78%, 8 providers.

  26. USD → PHP

    Q2 2016: 4.55%. Q3 2025: 3.38%, 14 providers.

  27. USD → VND

    Q2 2016: 4.23%. Q3 2025: 3.11%, 9 providers.

  28. USD → BRL

    Q2 2016: 3.94%. Q3 2025: 2.88%, 12 providers.

  29. USD → INR

    Q2 2016: 2.47%. Q3 2025: 1.49%, 13 providers.

  30. AED → EGP

    Q2 2016: 3.62%. Q3 2025: 2.84%, 9 providers.

  31. USD → MXN

    Q2 2016: 4.44%. Q3 2025: 3.87%, 15 providers.

  32. SGD → PHP

    Q2 2016: 2.54%. Q3 2025: 2.07%, 19 providers.

  33. NZD → INR

    Q2 2016: 3.74%. Q3 2025: 3.36%, 13 providers.

  34. USD → PKR

    Q2 2016: 1.96%. Q3 2025: 1.62%, 7 providers.

  35. AED → INR

    Q2 2016: 2.38%. Q3 2025: 2.16%, 12 providers.

  36. AED → PKR

    Q2 2016: 0.58%. Q3 2025: 0.63%, 11 providers.

  37. AED → NPR

    Q2 2016: 2.72%. Q3 2025: 2.86%, 10 providers.

  38. SAR → NPR

    Q2 2016: 3.59%. Q3 2025: 3.81%, 7 providers.

  39. SAR → INR

    Q2 2016: 3.42%. Q3 2025: 4.07%, 8 providers.

  40. OMR → PKR

    Q2 2016: 2.84%. Q3 2025: 3.67%, 4 providers.

  41. SAR → PKR

    Q2 2016: 3.11%. Q3 2025: 4.07%, 8 providers.

  42. EUR → TRY

    Q2 2016: 3.49%. Q3 2025: 4.52%, 8 providers.

  43. GBP → BDT

    Q2 2016: 2.74%. Q3 2025: 4.96%, 10 providers.

  44. QAR → BDT

    Q2 2016: 4.88%. Q3 2025: 7.14%, 4 providers.

  45. USD → BDT

    Q2 2016: 4.96%. Q3 2025: 7.46%, 9 providers.

  46. EUR → BDT

    Q1 2019: 3.06%. Q3 2025: 5.75%, 13 providers.

  47. SAR → BDT

    Q2 2016: 4.19%. Q3 2025: 8.66%, 7 providers.

  48. AED → BDT

    Q2 2016: 2.15%. Q3 2025: 7.01%, 7 providers.

How this is measured

This page uses every provider the survey recorded, including the few that the corridor pages leave out. For each corridor and survey period, each provider (a firm in a sending country) counts once, with its cheapest service for USD 200. The corridor’s figure is the median of those costs. The chart takes the median over corridors.

The data have 35 survey periods. There are no data for Q3 2024, Q4 2024, Q2 2025. The chart places each period at its calendar position.

The providers measured change between periods, and corridors with few providers move more. A change in the median shows what the survey recorded, not that one provider became cheaper. A corridor’s own first period can be later than 2016.

Source: The World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide, available at remittanceprices.worldbank.org. Data: Q3 2025 release, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Adapted by Kitwagon: providers are sorted by cost, and the cost shown for “Your amount” is Kitwagon’s own estimate calculated from the World Bank figures.

Frequently asked questions

Has sending money abroad become cheaper?

In the World Bank’s survey (Q3 2025 release), the median cost of sending USD 200 across the corridors on this site was 4.19% in Q2 2016 and 2.88% in Q3 2025. The median cost fell in 35 of 48 corridors with at least 6 survey periods. Historical survey data, not live quotes.

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