Workforce and Employment

Migrants sent half a trillion dollars home last year. These maps show where the money went

For a growing number of families, remittances is their main source of income Image: REUTERS/Rick Scuteri

Simon Torkington

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Map showing where migrants in the US send money home.
  Map showing where migrants in Germany send money home.
  Map showing where migrants in Saudi Arabia send money home.
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