Eritrea: International tourism, receipts (current US$)

Key figures

Since 1995 it is down 17.24% from US$58 million in 1995 (0.9% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 6 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 105.6% in 2001 and the biggest yearly fall was 62.2% in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

See how every economy compares in the full ranking.

Closest to Eritrea in the 2016 ranking

• Barbados — 1st of 5: US$1.07 billion
• French Polynesia — 2nd of 5: US$782 million
• Venezuela, RB — 3rd of 5: US$546 million
• Congo, Rep. — 5th of 5: US$42.9 million

What this measures

International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Limitations: Tourism can be either domestic or international. The data refers to international tourism, where the traveler's country of residence differs from the visiting country. International tourism consists of inbound (arrival) and outbound (departures) tourism. The data are from the World Tourism Organization (WTO), a United Nations agency. The data on inbound and outbound tourists refer to the number of arrivals and departures, not to the number of people traveling. Thus a person who makes several trips to a country during a given period is counted each time as a new arrival. The data on inbound tourism show the arrivals of nonresident tourists (overnight visitors) at national borders.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.

All 16 values

International tourism, receipts (current US$) in nearby economies

• Angola — US$19 million (2020)
• Benin — US$240.86 million (2019)
• Botswana — US$217 million (2020)
• Burkina Faso — US$173 million (2019)
• Cabo Verde — US$169 million (2020)
• Cameroon — US$437 million (2020)
• Comoros — US$18.5 million (2020)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — US$60.5 million (2018)
• Congo, Rep. — US$42.9 million (2016)
• Côte d'Ivoire

More private sector & trade data for Eritrea

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 29.36% (2025)
• Import unit value index (2015 = 100) — 123.8 (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$524 million (2025)
• Export unit value index (2015 = 100) — 127.3 (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$631 million (2025)
• Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 19.06% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 44.74% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 51.46% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Eritrea's international tourism, receipts (current US$)?

US$48 million in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1995?

It is down 17.24% from US$58 million in 1995 (0.9% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$90 million in 1997 and the lowest US$26 million in 2009.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator ST.INT.RCPT.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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