China's transport services (% of service imports, BoP) was 17.79% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 1.8 percentage points from 19.59% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 17.79% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 17.82% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 19.59% | 2015 |
| Highest | 74.56% | 1990 |
| Lowest | 14.1% | 2019 |
| Average since 2016 | 18.88% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 61.61% | 1982 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, China's transport services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 0.38 percentage points on 2024 (from 17.41% to 17.79%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.98 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.27 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 14.14 percentage points in 1985 and the biggest yearly fall was 21.62 percentage points in 1984. 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 less than 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
In 2025, China had the 105th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| China | 17.79% | 2025 |
| World | 18.72% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 21.19% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 23.06% | 2025 |
Closest to China in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Transport services covers the process of carriage of people and objects from one location to another as well as related supporting and auxiliary services. Also included are postal and courier services. 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 44 values
| Year | Transport services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.79 |
| 2024 | 17.41 |
| 2023 | 19.08 |
| 2022 | 22.32 |
| 2021 | 21.54 |
| 2020 | 17.82 |
| 2019 | 14.1 |
| 2018 | 20.77 |
| 2017 | 19.76 |
| 2016 | 18.25 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 16.15% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 15.9% (2025)
- Cambodia — 53.8% (2025)
- Fiji — 45.81% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 31.06% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 20.99% (2025)
- Indonesia — 23.85% (2025)
- Japan — 13.43% (2025)
- Kiribati — 54.5% (2025)
- Korea, Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for China
- Exports of goods and services (current US$) — US$4.11 trillion (2025)
- Exports of goods and services (current LCU) — 29.54 trillion (2025)
- Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) — 21.07% (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$) — US$3.29 trillion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current LCU) — 23.67 trillion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) — 16.89% (2025)
- External balance on goods and services (current US$) — US$816.19 billion (2025)
- External balance on goods and services (current LCU) — 5.87 trillion (2025)
- External balance on goods and services (% of GDP) — 4.19% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is China's transport services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 17.79% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1982?
- It is down 43.82 percentage points from 61.61% in 1982. The highest value was 74.56% in 1990 and the lowest 14.1% in 2019.
- How does China rank?
- 105th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for China?
- In 2025, China's transport services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 0.38 percentage points on 2024 (from 17.41% to 17.79%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.98 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.27 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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.TRAN.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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