The volume of money transfers from abroad amounted to 150.9 million USD (402.7 million GEL) in December of 2018, more than 9.1 percent (12.5 million USD) compared to the same period of the last year.

As the National Bank of Georgia said on January 15, 94.3 percent of the total money transfers from abroad came from 18 largest donor countries, with the volume of transfers from these countries each exceeding 1 million USD in December 2018. In December 2017 the share of these 18 countries constituted 94.2 percent of the total volume of money transfers.