Bank of Uganda and IFAD launch remittance dashboard with monthly corridor and channel level data

The Bank of Uganda, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, has launched an interactive remittance dashboard that makes detailed transaction-based data on Uganda's remittance market publicly available. The tool is intended to close a longstanding data gap by showing remittance inflows and outflows by value and volume, sending and receiving countries, transfer channels, termination methods and district-level demographic patterns. The release underscores the scale of the market, with remittance inflows reaching USD 2.5 billion in 2025, equivalent to about 3.8 per cent of GDP. Data collected under the new reporting framework shows more than 16 million remittance transactions in 2025, with an average transaction size of USD 152, while more than 93 per cent of transfers were below USD 499. The United States was the largest sending country at USD 702 million, or 28 per cent of total inflows, followed by Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Canada. Digital channels accounted for 73 per cent of inflows and cash transfers for 27 per cent, with mobile money representing nearly 61 per cent of remittance receipts. Uganda remained a net recipient of remittances, with outflows totaling USD 402 million and mainly directed to India, Kenya, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The dashboard will be updated monthly and will also be available through RemitSCOPe.org, IFAD's Financing Facility for Remittances platform for global remittance data and analysis. It was developed with IFAD technical support under the PRIME Africa programme, which is co-funded by the European Union, and forms part of Uganda's National Remittance Stakeholder Network.