Angola: Travel services (% of commercial service exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Angola's travel services (% of commercial service exports) rose 0.08 percentage points on 2024 (from 13.79% to 13.87%).

Across the 22 yearly changes before that (2003 to 2024), the average change was −0.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 23.51 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 67.35 percentage points in 2007 and the biggest yearly fall was 60.29 percentage points in 2020. 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 downward, about 10.65 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 81% 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.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about -26.99% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 7.94%, against 11.39% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2025, Angola had the 109th 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.

Closest to Angola in the 2025 ranking

• Norway — 106th of 134: 14.91%
• Korea, Rep. — 107th of 134: 14.87%
• China — 108th of 134: 14.4%
• Nigeria — 110th of 134: 13.63%
• Cyprus — 111th of 134: 13.42%
• Slovak Republic — 112th of 134: 12.6%

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 exports which are commercial services provided by residents to non-residents.

Limitations: Balance of payments statistics, the main source of information on international trade in services, have many weaknesses. Disaggregation of important components may be limited and varies considerably across countries. There are inconsistencies in the methods used to report items. And the recording of major flows as net items is common (for example, insurance transactions are often recorded as premiums less claims). These factors contribute to a downward bias in the value of the service trade reported in the balance of payments. Efforts are being made to improve the coverage, quality, and consistency of these data.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 26 values

Travel services (% of commercial service exports) in nearby economies

• Benin — 55.64% (2023)
• Botswana — 55.17% (2025)
• Burkina Faso — 23.75% (2024)
• Burundi — 4.17% (2025)
• Cabo Verde — 80.28% (2025)
• Cameroon — 12.99% (2024)
• Comoros — 77% (2023)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 53.31% (2025)
• Congo, Rep. — 3.35% (2021)
• Côte d'Ivoire

More private sector & trade data for Angola

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$14.97 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$32.49 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 57.5% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 33.39% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (% of total merchandise imports) — 9.11% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.0000152% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$15.69 billion (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Angola's travel services (% of commercial service exports)?

13.87% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is down 6.72 percentage points from 20.59% in 1990. The highest value was 94.51% in 2014 and the lowest 0.67% in 1996.

How does Angola rank?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.VAL.TRVL.ZS.WT, 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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