Cost to send money from Saudi Arabia to South Sudan
The World Bank surveyed one service from Saudi Arabia to South Sudan in Q3 2025: Western Union, at a total cost of 4.83% of SAR 750. With one service, this is not a corridor average. A year earlier, in Q3 2024, the average was 2.99%.
| Average total cost (US$200 equivalent) | 4.83% |
| Average total cost (US$500 equivalent) | 3.27% |
| Average FX margin | 2.22% |
| Money transfer operators | 4.83% across 1 service |
| Surveyed | 2 Sep 2025 to 2 Sep 2025, 1 provider |
Every service surveyed, cheapest first
Total cost is the fee plus the FX margin, as a share of SAR 750.
| Provider | Type | Pay by | Receive as | Speed | Fee | FX margin | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Union | Money Transfer Operator | Cash | Cash | Less than one hour | SAR 19.55 | 2.22% | 4.83% |
How the cost has moved
The average was 7.77% in Q2 2016, the first quarter in this series with data for the corridor, and 4.83% in Q3 2025.
The UN target
The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to bring the global average cost of sending remittances below 3% by 2030 and to remove corridors costing more than 5%. The World Bank measures the 5% test on the average of the three cheapest qualifying services in each corridor, not on the corridor average. source
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How much does it cost to send money from Saudi Arabia to South Sudan?
The World Bank surveyed one service from Saudi Arabia to South Sudan in Q3 2025: Western Union, at a total cost of 4.83% of SAR 750. With one service, this is not a corridor average. A year earlier, in Q3 2024, the average was 2.99%.
Where Polynopsis fits
The companies surveyed here move money across borders every day, and many of them prefund payout partners in the receiving country. Polynopsis is liquidity software for those companies: one live position across their banks, payout partners and wallets, with a warning before a corridor runs dry.
Data: World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide (complete dataset, licensed CC BY 4.0). Averages and charts are worked out by Polynopsis from that dataset. Services without a US$200 quote are left out of the averages, so a few corridors differ slightly from the World Bank site. Each corridor uses the local send amount the World Bank set as the equivalent of US$200; where that amount is now worth much less than US$200, fixed fees make the percentage cost higher.
Know where all your money is.
Polynopsis gives cross-border payment teams one live position across every bank, payout partner, exchange and wallet, including money in flight, and warns before a corridor runs dry.
About Polynopsis
Polynopsis is liquidity management software for cross-border payment companies. The name joins poly, many, and synopsis, a seeing together: one live view of money spread across many banks, payout partners, exchanges and stablecoin wallets, including money in flight, with a warning before any corridor runs dry.
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