Bahrain's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) was US$1.72 billion in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 321.57% from US$408 million in 2009 (15.47% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$1.72 billion | 2019 |
| Five years earlier | US$611 million | 2014 |
| Ten years earlier | US$408 million | 2009 |
| Highest | US$4.34 billion | 2015 |
| Lowest | US$109 million | 1996 |
| Average since 2010 | US$1.59 billion | 2010–2019 |
| First recorded | US$122 million |
What the numbers say
In 2019, Bahrain's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) rose 3.7% on 2018 (from US$1.66 billion to US$1.72 billion).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2018), the average change was +32% and a typical year strayed about 128.2% 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 610.6% in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 45.1% in 2016. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2010 to 2019 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 26% 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
In 2019, Bahrain had the 1st highest value of the 13 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | US$1.72 billion | 2019 |
| World | US$1.4 trillion | 2019 |
| High income | US$861.88 billion | 2019 |
Closest to Bahrain in the 2019 ranking
What this measures
International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries. The goods and services are purchased by, or on behalf of, the traveler or provided, without a quid pro quo, for the traveler to use or give away. These may include expenditures by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are so important as to justify a separate classification. Excluded is the international carriage of travelers, which is covered in passenger travel items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.
All 25 values
| Year | International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,720,000,000 |
| 2018 | 1,659,000,000 |
| 2017 | 2,300,000,000 |
| 2016 | 2,383,000,000 |
| 2015 | 4,342,000,000 |
| 2014 | 611,000,000 |
| 2013 | 839,000,000 |
| 2012 | 814,000,000 |
| 2011 | 718,000,000 |
| 2010 | 506,000,000 |
International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — US$30 million (2020)
- Algeria — US$234 million (2020)
- Djibouti — US$14.9 million (2020)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — US$2.51 billion (2020)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — US$8.7 billion (2018)
- Iraq — US$4.17 billion (2020)
- Israel — US$1.8 billion (2020)
- Jordan — US$381 million (2020)
- Kuwait
More private sector & trade data for Bahrain
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$16.45 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$26.46 billion (2025)
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 87.63% (2025)
- Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) — 33.83% (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 19.64% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 62.55% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 35.87% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports)
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Questions people ask
- What is Bahrain's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$)?
- US$1.72 billion in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 1,310% from US$122 million in 1995 (11.66% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$4.34 billion in 2015 and the lowest US$109 million in 1996.
- How does Bahrain rank?
- 1st highest of 13 economies with data for 2019.
- Is the latest change in international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) unusual for Bahrain?
- In 2019, Bahrain's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) rose 3.7% on 2018 (from US$1.66 billion to US$1.72 billion). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2018), the average change was +32% and a typical year strayed about 128.2% 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 ST.INT.TVLX.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism 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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