According to the Central Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan received a record $41.6 billion in remittances from overseas workers in the last fiscal year ended June 30 (FY2026), which was higher than total exports during the same period.The State Bank of Pakistan posted on social media that workers’ remittances reached $41.6 billion in FY26, an increase of 8.6% from $38.3 billion in FY25. Khurram Shehzad, adviser to the finance minister, said the figure was Pakistan’s “highest annual remittances in history”.The data showed that Saudi Arabia ($829.6 million) and the United Arab Emirates ($792.3 million) were the largest sources of remittance inflows in June, followed by the United Kingdom ($514.9 million) and the United States ($296.8 million). Other countries with inflows exceeding $100 million were Italy ($121.1 million) and Oman ($110.8 million).
