Regional remittances changes

Regional remittances changes

How have remittance revenues and flows changed regionally over the past decade?

Western Union World Bank regional remittances

We compared Western Union’s regional revenue split to the World Bank’s outbound remittance flows for 2012 to 2019, the latest year the World Bank outbound data is available for. It’s clear North America and Europe have significantly driven revenue – this makes sense as they house the majority of remittance senders. Also notable is how much Latin and Central America varies between the charts, representing a strong market for Western Union but just a small fraction of flows on the World Bank chart. 

It’s also worth mentioning that Western Union adjusted how it defined its markets, and changed how it included its digital business, between 2016 and 2017, causing the change in region share at this point. 

As digital becomes an ever-increasing share of Western Union’s business and with partnerships in regions such as in the Middle East with stc pay, it will be interesting to see how this mix develops over the next ten years.

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