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Nepal’s Monthly Remittance Inflow Hits Record 200$ Billion

Review Nepal
  Kathmandu      November 17 2025

Kathmandu, Nepal, November 17, 2025: Nepal has recorded a new financial milestone, with monthly remittance inflows crossing the 200$ billion marks for the first time. The total reached 201.22$ billion from mid-September to mid-October, marking a significant 39.6 percent increase from the144.17$ billion recorded during the same period last year.
 
The record surge is primarily attributed to a combination of factors like rising out-migration, the season like Dashain, Tihar, and Chhath festival, stronger of US dollar, and a successful shift from informal to formal remittance channels driven by stricter Anti-Money Laundering (AML) measures.
 
The remittance figures reflect Nepal's deeper dependence on labor migration amid scarce domestic job opportunities. In the first quarter of the fiscal year 2025–26, remittance inflows rose 35.4 percent to 553.31$ billion. 
 
This acceleration is tied directly to rising departures: in the first quarter alone, 200,716 Nepalis left with work permits—an 18 percent year-on-year rise—equivalent to nearly 2,230 departures daily.