The Philippinestopped the list with 24.45 billion USD. Indonesia came third with 7.2billion USD, followed by Thailand (4.12 billion USD), Malaysia (1.27billion USD) and Myanmar (0.56 billion USD).
On the global scale, Vietnam ranked ninth, while India came on top with 69 billion USD.
According to the WB, remittance to Southeast Asian countries totalled47.96 billion USD in 2012, up 8.43 percent over the previous year, butfar lower than the recorded 109 billion USD.
Remittance to developing countries is expected to grow on average 8.8percent per annum for the next three years and is forecast to reach 515billion USD in 2015.
Since 2000, overseas remittance flow to developing countries has increased fourfold.-VNA