remittance_cost
Cost of sending money home, by corridor
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What it costs to send money from one country to another, from the World Bank's Remittance Prices Worldwide survey (newest quarter, CC BY 4.0): the mean total cost — fee plus exchange-rate margin — of sending USD 200 and USD 500 across the providers surveyed on that corridor, the cheapest provider found, and how many were surveyed. With amount (USD), a quote at the nearer of the two surveyed bands (below USD 350 uses the 200 figures), and the response says which. Give from AND to for one corridor; only one of them for a ranking of surveyed corridors out of a sender or into a receiver, cheapest first. The survey covers ~350 high-volume corridors (~46 sending countries, ~96 receiving); a pair it does not survey returns NO_DATA, never a figure borrowed from a neighbour. Your own quote will differ by provider, payment method and day.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from | string | no | Sending country, ISO alpha-2 (e.g. "GB"). |
| to | string | no | Receiving country, ISO alpha-2 (e.g. "IN"). |
| amount | number | no | Amount to send, USD. Optional; without it the corridor's survey figures are returned unquoted. |
| sort | string | no | Ranking direction when only one of `from`/`to` is given. |
| limit | number | no | Return at most this many corridors in a ranking. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"from": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Sending country, ISO alpha-2 (e.g. \"GB\")."
},
"to": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Receiving country, ISO alpha-2 (e.g. \"IN\")."
},
"amount": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Amount to send, USD. Optional; without it the corridor's survey figures are returned unquoted."
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"lowest",
"highest"
],
"default": "lowest",
"description": "Ranking direction when only one of `from`/`to` is given."
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Return at most this many corridors in a ranking."
}
}
}