Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Remit over 1.8 billion USD in First Four Months of 2023
Xinhua,
Published 2023 May 13 Saturday
COLOMBO : Sri Lankan migrant workers remitted over 1.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of 2023, Minister of Labor and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said on Saturday.
The minister said workers remitted 454 million dollars in April, which marks an 82.4 percent increase from inflows recorded in April 2022.
Official figures for the 2021 and 2022 totals were 5.49 billion dollars and 3.8 billion dollars, respectively.Migrant workers' remittances are one of main sources of foreign revenues for Sri Lanka.
