Arab World: Travel services (% of service imports, BoP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Arab World's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 0.4 percentage points on 2024 (from 26.08% to 25.68%).

Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.32 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.3 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below 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 4.57 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 9 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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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 15 values

Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 2.72% (2020)
• Algeria — 14.56% (2025)
• 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)

More economic policy & debt data for Arab World

• GDP (current US$) — US$3.8 trillion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$7,544 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$3.83 trillion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$3.22 trillion (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$6,404 (2025)
• GDP (annual % growth) — 3.68% (2025)
• GDP per capita (annual % growth) — 1.46% (2025)
• General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$658.27 billion (2025)
• General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 17.33% (2025)
• Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Arab World's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?

25.68% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2011?

It is up 3.71 percentage points from 21.97% in 2011. The highest value was 28.04% in 2023 and the lowest 18.48% in 2020.

Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Arab World?

In 2025, Arab World's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 0.4 percentage points on 2024 (from 26.08% to 25.68%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.32 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.3 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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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