All🚢 Primary income receipts
Primary income receipts refer to employee compensation paid to resident workers working abroad and investment income (receipts on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments, and receipts on reserve assets).
Highlights
As of 2025, United States ranks first with $1,530.2B, followed by United Kingdom ($527.2B) and Germany ($467.0B).
United States is 2.9 times higher than United Kingdom, the runner-up.
Across 137 countries and territories, values run from $1,530.2B (United States) to $0.0B (Sudan), with a median of $3.1B.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 3 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Primary income receipts (BoP, current US$), 2025. Unit: USD billion.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Primary income receipts (BoP, current US$) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026