GCC outward worker remittances reach about $161 billion in 2025
Gulf Cooperation Council countries recorded about $161 billion in outward workers’ remittances in 2025, according to Qatar News Agency’s account of a GCC-Stat report. The figure was up 13.6% year on year, while remittances represented about 6.6% of the region’s combined GDP.
Event / data period: 2025
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QNA’s 4 October report attributes the figures to GCC-Stat’s “Outward Workers’ Remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, 2025.” It says transfers rose for a second consecutive year after declining in 2023, reaching about $161 billion in 2025; the annual increase was approximately $19 billion.
The report put remittances at about 6.6% of combined GCC GDP in 2025, compared with 6.0% in 2024. QNA explicitly cautions that this ratio alone does not indicate whether economic performance improved or deteriorated. It gave US outward remittances of about $107 billion as a comparison.
Data
GCC outward workers’ remittances
Regional financial-flow indicators attributed to GCC-Stat’s 2025 report.
- GCC outward workers’ remittances
- ≈161 billion USD
- 2025 · Observed
- Share of combined GDP, 2025
- ≈6.6 percent
- 2025 · Observed
- Share of combined GDP, 2024
- ≈6 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- US outward workers’ remittances, comparison
- ≈107 billion USD
- 2025 · Observed
Methodology
Transcribed from QNA’s 4 October 2026 report of GCC-Stat’s 2025 publication. Approximation qualifiers are retained for amounts and GDP ratios; the US comparator refers to outward remittances in the same annual period.
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