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IR004_sources_remittance_data.md – Sources for Remittance Dependency Analysis

Type: Intelligence Report
Date: March 24, 2026
Related: IR004_remittance_dependency_ranking.md

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1. Banco de España – Remittance Data

Title: Las remesas enviadas desde España hacia América Latina: algunas cifras básicas
Author(s): Juan Carlos Berganza, María Pla Cobián González, María Teresa García Cid, Esther López Espinosa
Publication: Boletín Económico – Banco de España, 2025/T2, Artículo 01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53479/39338
URL: https://www.bde.es/f/webbe/SES/Secciones/Publicaciones/InformesBoletinesRevistas/BoletinEconomico/25/T2/Fich/be2502-art01.pdf

Key tables used:

• Table 2 – Distribution by destination country of remittances sent from Spain (2013–2023)
• Table 1 – Distribution by geographic area

Local copy: Stored in knowledge/research/ (original PDF) and referenced in research sessions RS008 and RS009.

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2. SEDLAC – Household Income Data

Source: Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEDLAS and The World Bank)
Version: September 2025
Files used:

• 2025_Act1_surveys_LAC.xlsx – Metadata on household surveys
• 2025_Act1_incomes_LAC.xlsx – Per capita income by deciles (national, urban, rural), in local currency units

Local storage:

• Both files are located in knowledge/intelligence/ folder.

Access:

• SEDLAC public portal: https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/estadisticas/sedlac/
• World Bank LAC Equity Lab: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/lac-equity-lab1/resources

Key data extracted:

• Mean per capita income (national) for 2023/2024 for each country, from sheet deciles_pci.

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3. Exchange Rates (Approximate, 2023)

Currency	Rate (1 EUR)	Source
Honduran Lempira	27.5	OANDA / Central Bank of Honduras
Paraguayan Guaraní	6,500	OANDA / Central Bank of Paraguay
Bolivian Boliviano	7.5	OANDA / Central Bank of Bolivia
US Dollar (Ecuador)	1.08	European Central Bank
Dominican Peso	58	OANDA / Central Bank of Dominican Republic
Colombian Peso	4,600	OANDA / Central Bank of Colombia
Peruvian Sol	4.0	OANDA / Central Bank of Peru

These rates are indicative; for a refined analysis, official annual averages should be used.

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4. Additional Notes

• The SEDLAC files also contain data on income from remittances and share of households receiving remittances. This information is available in the income composition tables (not extracted here) and would allow a more precise calculation of remittance dependency at the household level.
• The Banco de España report provides remittance totals by country; population figures used for per‑capita calculations are from World Bank (2023).

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Prepared by DeepSeek, Main Research Assistant, March 24, 2026

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