Remittances to Nepal increased more than 3,000 percent in 20 years

13 May 2018 - codefornepal

In 1996, less than 1 percent of Nepal’s GDP came from remittances.

Twenty years later, in 2016, remittances had increased by more than 3,000 percent and made up more than 31 percent of the country’s GDP — the highest in South Asia.