Record remittances for 2015

Jamaica garnered just 3.2 percent or US$69 million in remittance inflows in 2015 bring total inflows for the calendar year to US$2.226 billion, after accounting for outflows of US$233 net remittances for the 2015 totaled US$1.99 billion, for a net increase of US$48 million over 2014.
For December 2015, remittance inflows amounted to US$211 million, an increase of a mere US$6 million or 2.9 percent relative to the corresponding month of the previous year. Net remittances totalled US$189 million, an increase of US$4.4 million or 2.4 per cent, relative to the corresponding period of 2014
Remittance inflows are the highest in Jamaica’s history, having hit US$2.157 billion in 2014, up from US$2.065 billion in 2013 and US$2.43 billion in 2012.