All🚢 Primary income payments
Primary income payments refer to employee compensation paid to nonresident workers and investment income (payments on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments).This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time.
Highlights
As of 2025, United States ranks first with $1,577.8B, followed by United Kingdom ($578.3B) and Ireland ($543.4B).
United States is 2.7 times higher than United Kingdom, the runner-up.
Across 137 countries and territories, values run from $1,577.8B (United States) to $-0.1B (São Tomé and Príncipe), with a median of $6.4B.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Europe, 2 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Primary income payments (BoP, current US$), 2025. Unit: USD billion.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026