{"id":121232,"date":"2025-09-07T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121232\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:47:08","slug":"sri-lankas-foreign-worker-remittances-hit-us5-billion-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121232\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign worker remittances hit US$5 billion in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0246.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign worker remittances reached a record US$5 billion in 2025, driven by strong inflows throughout the year, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In August 2025, remittances totaled US$680.8 million, up 19.3% from US$577.5 million in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For the period January to August, total remittances reached US$5,116 million, compared with US$4,288.2 million in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0244.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"420\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign worker remittances reached a record US$5 billion in 2025, driven by strong inflows throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}