Algeria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) was 14.56% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 8.35 percentage points from 6.21% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 14.56% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 3.14% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 6.21% | 2015 |
| Highest | 23.53% | 1985 |
| Lowest | 2.78% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.26% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 9.96% | 1977 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Algeria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 7.65 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.91% to 14.56%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1981 to 2024), the average change was −0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.73 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.8 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 7.65 percentage points in 2025 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.95 percentage points in 1990. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.78 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 44% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Algeria had the 95th highest value of the 134 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 14.56% | 2025 |
| World | 20.43% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 31.82% | 2025 |
Closest to Algeria in the 2025 ranking
- Türkiye — 91st of 134: 15.17%
- Azerbaijan — 92nd of 134: 15.08%
- St. Lucia — 93rd of 134: 14.92%
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 95th of 134: 14.47%
- Chile — 96th of 134: 14.36%
- Hungary — 97th of 134: 14.24%
What this measures
Travel services cover goods and services for own use or to give away acquired from an economy by nonresidents during visits to that economy, or acquired from other economies by residents during visits to these other economies. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are services provided by non-residents to residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 36 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.56 |
| 2024 | 6.91 |
| 2023 | 9.82 |
| 2022 | 5.21 |
| 2021 | 2.78 |
| 2020 | 3.14 |
| 2019 | 6.42 |
| 2018 | 4.22 |
| 2017 | 5.15 |
| 2016 | 4.36 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 2.72% (2020)
- Bahrain — 11.68% (2025)
- Djibouti — 2.9% (2024)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 14.47% (2025)
- Iraq — 32.6% (2025)
- Israel — 20.04% (2025)
- Jordan — 29.76% (2024)
- Kuwait — 43.03% (2025)
- Lebanon — 55.66% (2023)
- Libya — 26.65% (2023)
More economic policy & debt data for Algeria
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$76.83 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$52.45 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$52.47 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 6.91 trillion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$46.72 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 1.59 trillion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 18.28% (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$119.87 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Algeria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 14.56% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1977?
- It is up 4.6 percentage points from 9.96% in 1977. The highest value was 23.53% in 1985 and the lowest 2.78% in 2021.
- How does Algeria rank?
- 95th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Algeria?
- In 2025, Algeria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 7.65 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.91% to 14.56%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1981 to 2024), the average change was −0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.73 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.8 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BM.GSR.TRVL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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