Remittances sent by Dominicans residents overseas have increased by 10.6% between January and June this 2018, compared to the same time period in 2017, according to data from the Central Bank. In the first half of this year some US$3.2 billion was sent to the country that is US$307.4 million more than the first half of last year.
Some 77.13% of the total came from the United States, where the majority of Dominicans overseas live, and 10.75% came from Spain, again where there are many Dominicans.
According to data published last year by the National Migration Institute (INM) more than 2 million Dominicans live overseas, the vast majority of whom reside in the United States.
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El Nuevo Diario
22 August 2018
