COLOMBO, Feb. 10 :
(Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s Minister of Labor and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said on Saturday that worker remittances in January 2024 are 11.4 percent higher than in January 2023.
Posting on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Nanayakkara said worker remittances for January 2024 were 487.6 million U.S. dollars, as compared to 437.5 million dollars in January 2023.
According to central bank statistics, worker remittances for 2023 were 5.96 billion dollars. Meanwhile, income from tourism in January 2024 has increased by 122.7 percent compared to January 2023, according to the central bank. Tourism and worker remittances are among Sri Lanka’s top foreign revenue earners.
