In March 2011 the volume of money transfers from abroad constituted 88.1 million USD, which is 6.2 million USD or 7.6 percent more than the same amount for March 2010. During this period, the volume of remittances grew from Russia (by 3.2 million), Kazakhstan (by 1.8 million), Italy (by 1.7 million), as well as for several other countries.

90.6 percent of total money transfers from abroad fall on those 10 big donor countries, from which the volume of such transfers exceeded 1 million USD in March. In March 2010 the share of these 10 countries constituted 91.6 percent of the total volume of money transfers. 

	Volume of money transfers in March, 2011  Million US Dollars	Structure of money transfers by the biggest donor countries %
		March, 2010	March, 2011
Total	88.1	100.0	100.0
Russia	48.4	55.2	55.0
Greece	6.6	7.2	7.4
Italy	6.3	5.6	7.2
USA	5.5	7.6	6.2
Ukraine	4.4	7.3	5.0
Kazakhstan	2.4	0.7	2.7
Turkey	2.1	3.1	2.4
Spain	1.9	2.7	2.2
Israel	1.3	1.0	1.4
Germany	1.0	1.2	1.1

In March 2011 6.2 million USD were transferred from Georgia, instead of 7.1 million USD in March 2010. 

In the reporting month, the structure of remittances by electronic wire systems is shown on the graph below.

Present statistical information is being published on the statistics headlines.