In March 2010 the volume of money transfers from abroad constituted 81.8 million USD, which is 21.2 million USD or 35.0 percent more than the same amount for March 2009. During this period the volume of remittances significantly grew for Russia (by 13.1 million), Greece (by 2.2 million) and Ukraine (by 1.6 million), as well as for several other countries.

90.0 percent of total money transfers from abroad fall on those eight big donor countries, from which the volume of such transfers exceeded 1 million USD in March. In March 2009 the share of these 8 countries constituted 89.1 percent of the total volume of money transfers. 

	Volume of money transfers in March, 2010  Million US Dollars	Structure of money transfers by the biggest donor countries %
		March, 2009	March, 2010
Total	81.8	100.0	100.0
Russia	45.2	52.9	55.2
USA	6.2	9.0	7.6
Ukraine	5.9	7.2	7.3
Greece	5.9	6.1	7.2
Italy	4.6	6.5	5.6
Turkey	2.5	3.3	3.1
Spain	2.2	2.5	2.7
Cyprus	1.1	1.6	1.3

In March 2010 7.1 million USD were transferred from Georgia, instead of 6.5 million USD in March 2009. 

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.