The World Bank and KNOMAD exclude Syria from their own 2023 remittance figures for the Middle East and North Africa, and give want of data as the reason
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Claim ID
REMIT-002
Exact or summary claim
The World Bank and KNOMAD exclude Syria from their own 2023 remittance figures for the Middle East and North Africa, and give want of data as the reason
Destination
Chapter 10
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-417, Migration and Development Brief 40, Figure A.4.2 and its note, page 29; SRC-418, the underlying series on Prosperity Data360
Source type
The publisher's own flagship publication and its own data platform
Published
2024-06-30
Accessed
2026-08-25
Measure and scope
"THE NOTE IN FULL: ""[quotation withheld, 20 words; follow the citation]"". The figure is titled ""[quotation withheld, 11 words; follow the citation]""[quotation withheld, 45 words; follow the citation]"
Known conflict
THE NOTE IS LOOSE AS TO ITS OWN SCOPE AND THE BOOK SHOULD SAY SO IF IT QUOTES IT. It names Yemen as excluded, yet Yemen carries 3.8 in the dollar-billions panel and is missing only from the percentage-of-GDP panel. Syria is absent from both, so the looseness does not touch the Syrian point; quoting the note without noticing it would be a second-hand error
Downstream
Chapter 10's account of what is measured and what is not; the book's argument that an absence encoded as a number is more dangerous than an absence left blank
Action
USABLE IN PROSE AS THE REPLACEMENT FOR THE WITHDRAWN COMPARISON. Print the note's own words and attribute them to the brief, with its number and date. Do not extend it into a claim that Syrians abroad send nothing, or that the flow is unknown to anyone: it establishes what this publisher declined to estimate and why