Starting from the January 2012 National Bank of Georgia extended money transfers statistics by adding data for Microfinance Organizations. The updated data are available on our web-site from January 2010.

In January 2012, the volume of money transfers from abroad constituted 84.4 million USD (or 140.9 million GEL), which is 10.0 million USD (or 16.7 million GEL), or 13.4 percent more than the same amount for January 2011.
 

88.8 percent of total money transfers from abroad fall on those 8 big donor countries, from which the volume of such transfers exceeded 1 million USD in January. In January 2011 the share of these 8 countries constituted 88.5 percent of the total volume of money transfers.

	Volume of money transfers in January, 2012 Million US Dollars	Structure of money transfers by the biggest donor countries %
		January, 2011	January, 2012
Total	84.4	100.0	100.0
Russia	41.7	49.1	49.4
Greece	11.4	11.1	13.5
Italy	8.2	9.0	9.7
USA	5.5	7.3	6.6
Ukraine	3.2	4.7	3.8
Spain	2.3	2.7	2.7
Turkey	1.7	3.1	2.0
United Kingdom	1.0	1.3	1.2

 
In January 2012, 6.8 million USD (or 11.4 million GEL) were transferred from Georgia instead of 9.2 million USD (or 16.6 million GEL) in January 2011.
 
In the reference month, the structure of remittances by electronic wire systems is shown on the graph below.

 
Present statistical information is published on the web-site of the National Bank of Georgia at the following address: the http://nbg.gov.ge/index.php?m=306&lng=eng