Bulgaria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) was 24.67% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.74 percentage points from 23.93% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 24.67% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 21.51% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 23.93% | 2015 |
| Highest | 42.54% | 2003 |
| Lowest | 6.15% | 1981 |
| Average since 2016 | 24.92% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 8.56% | 1980 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Bulgaria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 0.5 percentage points on 2024 (from 24.18% to 24.67%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.15 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.79 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 17.11 percentage points in 1990 and the biggest yearly fall was 10.64 percentage points in 2010. 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 0.64 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 33% 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, Bulgaria had the 47th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 24.67% | 2025 |
| World | 20.43% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 17.39% | 2025 |
| High income | 18.17% | 2025 |
Closest to Bulgaria in the 2025 ranking
- Pakistan — 42nd of 134: 24.79%
- United Kingdom — 43rd of 134: 24.73%
- Peru — 44th of 134: 24.72%
- Sri Lanka — 46th of 134: 24.67%
- Costa Rica — 47th of 134: 24.66%
- Guatemala — 48th of 134: 24.57%
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 46 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 24.67 |
| 2024 | 24.18 |
| 2023 | 22.56 |
| 2022 | 20.67 |
| 2021 | 21.84 |
| 2020 | 21.51 |
| 2019 | 29.31 |
| 2018 | 29.89 |
| 2017 | 28.19 |
| 2016 | 26.38 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Albania — 75.93% (2025)
- Armenia — 54.18% (2025)
- Austria — 18.71% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 15.08% (2025)
- Belarus — 10.22% (2021)
- Belgium — 15.28% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 39.33% (2025)
- Croatia — 33.29% (2025)
- Cyprus — 9.36% (2025)
- Czechia — 23.39% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Bulgaria
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 4.06% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, net forest depletion (current US$) — US$0 (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$387.76 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, energy depletion (current US$) — US$46.2 million (2021)
- Trade in services (% of GDP) — 21.44% (2025)
- Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) — 37.95% (2025)
- Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) — US$11.11 billion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$, BoP) — US$67.93 billion (2025)
- Goods imports (current US$, BoP) — US$58.51 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Bulgaria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 24.67% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1980?
- It is up 16.11 percentage points from 8.56% in 1980. The highest value was 42.54% in 2003 and the lowest 6.15% in 1981.
- How does Bulgaria rank?
- 47th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Bulgaria?
- In 2025, Bulgaria's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 0.5 percentage points on 2024 (from 24.18% to 24.67%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.15 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.79 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations above 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 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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