Soft remittance flows to end at $3.4B in 2023

Remittance inflows into Jamaica fell 1.9 percent in September to U.S$284.4 million and 1.2 percent for the year to date to just under $2.53 billion, this marks the 6^th month of decline in remittances for the year to date, data from jamaica’s central bank shows.
With three months to go before the end of 2023, the market seems on track to be close to this US$3.44 billion of total inflows in 2022, with the absolute shortfall in remittances to date of just US$31 million adrift of the 2022 intake to September. The 1.9 percent fall in September is far less than the 5.9 percent decline that occurred in August and a 5.8 percent fall in April.