{"id":16171,"date":"2026-04-27T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=16171"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:24:15","slug":"remittances-in-1q-2026-up-by-record-of-27-to-2-29-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=16171","title":{"rendered":"Remittances in 1Q 2026 up by record of 27% to $ 2.29 Bn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau states that the amount of remittances sent by migrant workers to the country during the first quarter of this year has increased by 26.5% compared to the first quarter of last year. From January to March 2026, the country received remittances of US $ 2.29billion. The amount of remittances received during the first 3 months of 2025 was $ 1,815 million. (1.81 billion) In January 2026, $ 751 million, $ 729 million in February and $ 815 million in March were received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 62,145 workers have gone abroad for work from January to the end of March this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau states that the amount of remittances sent by migrant workers to the country during the first quarter of this year has increased by 26.5% compared to the first quarter of last year. From January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16173,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions\/16173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}