United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division International Migration Policies, 1995 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Percentage of foreign exchange Region and country Year earnings --------------------- ---- ------------ Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Bahamas .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Barbados 1993 1.8 ----------------------------------------------- Cuba .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Dominica 1993 13.3 ----------------------------------------------- Dominican Republic 1993 13.1 ----------------------------------------------- Grenada 1993 0.1 ----------------------------------------------- Haiti .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Jamaica 1993 9.1 ----------------------------------------------- Saint Kitts and Nevis 1993 0.1 ----------------------------------------------- Saint Lucia 1993 0.1 ----------------------------------------------- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1993 0.2 ----------------------------------------------- Trinidad and Tobago 1994 1.2 ----------------------------------------------- Central America Belize 1993 5.5 ----------------------------------------------- Costa Rica .. .. ----------------------------------------------- El Salvador 1994 36.8 ----------------------------------------------- Guatemala 1993 10.5 ----------------------------------------------- Honduras 1993 10.4 ----------------------------------------------- Mexico 1994 7.6 ----------------------------------------------- Nicaragua 1994 5.5 ----------------------------------------------- Panama .. .. ----------------------------------------------- South America Argentina .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Bolivia 1994 0.4 ----------------------------------------------- Brazil 1992 0.2 ----------------------------------------------- Chile .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Colombia 1992 6.3 ----------------------------------------------- Ecuador .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Guyana .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Paraguay 1993 1.7 ----------------------------------------------- Peru .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Suriname 1994 0.1 ----------------------------------------------- Uruguay .. .. ----------------------------------------------- Venezuela 1993 0.0 ----------------------------------------------- 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