Gabon: International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2015, Gabon's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) fell 41.6% on 2014 (from US$397 million to US$232 million).

Across the 17 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2014), the average change was +14.6% and a typical year strayed about 48% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 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 167.9% in 2001 and the biggest yearly fall was 42.2% in 2012. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2007 to 2015 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 1% of the movement over 9 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

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What this measures

International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries. The goods and services are purchased by, or on behalf of, the traveler or provided, without a quid pro quo, for the traveler to use or give away. These may include expenditures by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are so important as to justify a separate classification. Excluded is the international carriage of travelers, which is covered in passenger travel items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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

All 20 values

International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) in nearby economies

• Angola — US$615 million (2020)
• Benin — US$94 million (2019)
• Botswana — US$89 million (2020)
• Burkina Faso — US$114.6 million (2019)
• Burundi — US$23 million (2018)
• Cabo Verde — US$52 million (2020)
• Cameroon — US$553 million (2020)
• Comoros — US$31 million (2020)
• Congo, Dem. Rep.

More private sector & trade data for Gabon

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 72.8% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$4 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$11.6 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 67.88% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 29.08% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.00164% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$4.09 billion (2023)
• Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports)

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Questions people ask

What is Gabon's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$)?

US$232 million in 2015, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1995?

It is up 69.34% from US$137 million in 1995 (2.67% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$543 million in 2011 and the lowest US$84 million in 1998.

Is the latest change in international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) unusual for Gabon?

In 2015, Gabon's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) fell 41.6% on 2014 (from US$397 million to US$232 million). Across the 17 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2014), the average change was +14.6% and a typical year strayed about 48% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 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 ST.INT.TVLX.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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