United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division International Migration Policies, 1995 EUROPE Percentage of foreign exchange Region and country Year earnings --------------------- ---- ------------ Eastern Europe Belarus .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Bulgaria .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Czech Republic .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Hungary .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Poland .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Republic of Moldova .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Romania 1994 0.1 ----------------------------------------------- Russian Federation .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Slovakia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Ukraine .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Northern Europe Denmark .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Estonia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Finland 1994 0.1 ----------------------------------------------- Iceland 1993 1.2 ----------------------------------------------- Ireland .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Latvia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Lithuania .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Norway 1994 0.2 ----------------------------------------------- Sweden 1994 0.3 ----------------------------------------------- United Kingdom .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Southern Europe Albania 1994 56.8 ----------------------------------------------- Andorra .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Bosnia and Herzegovina .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Croatia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Greece 1994 15.8 ----------------------------------------------- Holy See .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Italy 1994 0.8 ----------------------------------------------- Malta 1994 0.5 ----------------------------------------------- Portugal 1993 15.1 ----------------------------------------------- San Marino .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Slovenia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Spain 1994 2.3 ----------------------------------------------- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Yugoslavia .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Western Europe Austria 1994 1.5 ----------------------------------------------- Belgium .. .. ----------------------------------------------- France 1994 1.2 ----------------------------------------------- Germany 1994 0.4 ----------------------------------------------- Liechtenstein .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Luxembourg .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Monaco .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Netherlands 1994 0.5 ----------------------------------------------- Switzerland 1993 0.8 ----------------------------------------------- Definitions: ----------- Remittances as a percentage of foreign exchange earnings refer to labour credit estimates (which include labour income earnings, migrant transfers and workers' remittances) as a percentage of total foreign exchange earnings for the latest available year. Notes: ----- Two dots (..) indicate that data are not readily available. Sources: ------- International Migration Policies (United Nations publication, forthcoming) Global Population Policy Database, 1993 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.9) World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.16) United Nations Demographic Yearbook (various issues) Databases of the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the United Nations Secretariat, such as Trends in Total Migrant Stock, Diskette Documentation, 1995 (POP/1B/DB/95/1) and the Population Policy Data Bank, both maintained by the Population Division, and the MEDS database maintained by the Macroeconomic and Social Policy Analysis Division Information Paper, 1994 (Geneva, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, 1994) Population of Concern to UNHCR: A Statistical Overview, 1993 (Geneva, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, 1994) United Nations publication, (ST/ESA/SER.A/154), Sales No. E.96.XIII.7 Copyright (C) United Nations 1996