Azerbaijan's travel services (% of commercial service exports) was 23.17% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 29.04 percentage points from 52.21% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 23.17% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 11.7% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 52.21% | 2015 |
| Highest | 64.62% | 2017 |
| Lowest | 8.3% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 34.03% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 42.27% | 1995 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Azerbaijan's travel services (% of commercial service exports) fell 2.15 percentage points on 2024 (from 25.32% to 23.17%).
Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was −0.58 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 10.06 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 16.44 percentage points in 2011 and the biggest yearly fall was 36.28 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 5.4 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 57% 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, Azerbaijan had the 83rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Azerbaijan | 23.17% | 2025 |
| World | 21.86% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 17.39% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 27.01% | 2025 |
Closest to Azerbaijan in the 2025 ranking
- Slovenia — 80th of 134: 26.12%
- Tunisia — 81st of 134: 26.09%
- Honduras — 82nd of 134: 23.21%
- Kazakhstan — 84th of 134: 23.04%
- Qatar — 85th of 134: 22.22%
- Mozambique — 86th of 134: 21.83%
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 31 values
| Year | Travel services (% of commercial service exports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 23.17 |
| 2024 | 25.32 |
| 2023 | 23.85 |
| 2022 | 16.36 |
| 2021 | 8.3 |
| 2020 | 11.7 |
| 2019 | 47.99 |
| 2018 | 56.43 |
| 2017 | 64.62 |
| 2016 | 62.52 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of commercial service exports) in nearby economies
More private sector & trade data for Azerbaijan
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 65.08% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$24.38 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$25.04 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.74% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 50.09% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 26.54% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 19.51% (2023)
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Questions people ask
- What is Azerbaijan's travel services (% of commercial service exports)?
- 23.17% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is down 19.1 percentage points from 42.27% in 1995. The highest value was 64.62% in 2017 and the lowest 8.3% in 2021.
- How does Azerbaijan rank?
- 83rd highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of commercial service exports) unusual for Azerbaijan?
- In 2025, Azerbaijan's travel services (% of commercial service exports) fell 2.15 percentage points on 2024 (from 25.32% to 23.17%). Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was −0.58 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 10.06 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.
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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