Comoros: Travel services (% of commercial service exports)

Key figures

Over five years it is up 4.72 percentage points from 72.28% in 2018. Since 1980 it is up 40.22 percentage points from 36.79% in 1980. The World Bank has no value for 8 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2023, Comoros' travel services (% of commercial service exports) fell 3.29 percentage points on 2022 (from 80.3% to 77%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2022), the average change was +0.41 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.67 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 39.46 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 40.74 percentage points in 1987. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2014 to 2023 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 8% 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 2023, Comoros had the 6th highest value of the 10 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.

Closest to Comoros in the 2023 ranking

• Aruba — 2nd of 10: 88.75%
• Tuvalu — 3rd of 10: 85.43%
• Sint Maarten (Dutch part) — 4th of 10: 81.1%
• Guyana — 6th of 10: 76.15%
• Lebanon — 7th of 10: 68.54%
• Curaçao — 8th of 10: 67.09%

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 36 values

Travel services (% of commercial service exports) in nearby economies

• Angola — 13.87% (2025)
• Benin — 55.64% (2023)
• Botswana — 55.17% (2025)
• Burkina Faso — 23.75% (2024)
• Burundi — 4.17% (2025)
• Cabo Verde — 80.28% (2025)
• Cameroon — 12.99% (2024)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 53.31% (2025)
• Congo, Rep. — 3.35% (2021)
• Côte d'Ivoire

More private sector & trade data for Comoros

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$371 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$48 million (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 62.18% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (% of total merchandise imports) — 5.92% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.07% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$354.4 million (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies within region (% of total merchandise imports) — 5.92% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Comoros's travel services (% of commercial service exports)?

77% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1980?

It is up 40.22 percentage points from 36.79% in 1980. The highest value was 82.35% in 1982 and the lowest 28.71% in 1990.

How does Comoros rank?

6th highest of 10 economies with data for 2023.

Is the latest change in travel services (% of commercial service exports) unusual for Comoros?

In 2023, Comoros' travel services (% of commercial service exports) fell 3.29 percentage points on 2022 (from 80.3% to 77%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2022), the average change was +0.41 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.67 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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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