Ethiopia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) was 4.55% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 1.84 percentage points from 6.39% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 4.55% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 10.71% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 6.39% | 2014 |
| Highest | 15.07% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 1.4% | 1981 |
| Average since 2015 | 7.99% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 3.39% | 1977 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Ethiopia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 3.93 percentage points on 2023 (from 8.48% to 4.55%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.16 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.28 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.8 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.05 percentage points in 2000 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.67 percentage points in 2001. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 11% 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 2024, Ethiopia had the 21st highest value of the 28 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 4.55% | 2024 |
| World | 20.43% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 16.01% | 2025 |
| Low income | 7.69% | 2024 |
Closest to Ethiopia in the 2024 ranking
- Burkina Faso — 18th of 28: 6.98%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 19th of 28: 6.72%
- Namibia — 20th of 28: 4.62%
- Sierra Leone — 22nd of 28: 4.33%
- Malta — 23rd of 28: 3.88%
- Mauritania — 24th of 28: 3.71%
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 48 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.55 |
| 2023 | 8.48 |
| 2022 | 7.1 |
| 2021 | 9.81 |
| 2020 | 5.96 |
| 2019 | 10.71 |
| 2018 | 9.87 |
| 2017 | 7.01 |
| 2016 | 8.76 |
| 2015 | 7.62 |
| 2014 |
Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 16.31% (2025)
- Benin — 3.33% (2023)
- Botswana — 9.37% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 6.98% (2024)
- Burundi — 8.87% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 28.24% (2025)
- Cameroon — 7.66% (2024)
- Comoros — 39.55% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 5.85% (2025)
- Congo, Rep. — 2.74% (2021)
More economic policy & debt data for Ethiopia
- GDP (current US$) — US$126.36 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 15.09 trillion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$932.73 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 111,421 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$126.14 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 15.07 trillion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 111,231 (2025)
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$3.78 billion (2024)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$3.78 billion (2024)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$128.07 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Ethiopia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 4.55% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1977?
- It is up 1.15 percentage points from 3.39% in 1977. The highest value was 15.07% in 2000 and the lowest 1.4% in 1981.
- How does Ethiopia rank?
- 21st highest of 28 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Ethiopia?
- In 2024, Ethiopia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 3.93 percentage points on 2023 (from 8.48% to 4.55%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.16 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.28 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.8 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
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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