Georgia: Travel services (% of service imports, BoP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Georgia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 0.81 percentage points on 2024 (from 12.74% to 11.93%).

Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1998 to 2024), the average change was −1.85 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.55 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 3.74 percentage points in 2019 and the biggest yearly fall was 20.71 percentage points in 2000. 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 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.57 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 58% of the movement over 10 observed years.

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

How it compares

In 2025, Georgia had the 104th 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.

Closest to Georgia in the 2025 ranking

• South Africa — 101st of 134: 13.01%
• Lithuania — 102nd of 134: 12.16%
• Finland — 103rd of 134: 12.08%
• Madagascar — 105th of 134: 11.84%
• Greece — 106th of 134: 11.82%
• Bahrain — 107th of 134: 11.68%

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 29 values

Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies

• Albania — 75.93% (2025)
• Armenia — 54.18% (2025)
• Austria — 18.71% (2025)
• Azerbaijan — 15.08% (2025)
• Belarus — 10.22% (2021)
• Belgium — 15.28% (2025)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina — 39.33% (2025)
• Bulgaria — 24.67% (2025)
• Croatia — 33.29% (2025)
• Cyprus — 9.36% (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Georgia

• GDP (current LCU) — 104.6 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$27.07 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 72.71 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 26,576 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$6,877 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 18,474 (2025)
• GDP (annual % growth) — 7.46% (2025)
• GDP per capita (annual % growth) — 4.1% (2025)
• Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 1.76% (2021)
• Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$184.49 million (2021)
• Adjusted savings, energy depletion (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Georgia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?

11.93% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1997?

It is down 50.63 percentage points from 62.56% in 1997. The highest value was 65.53% in 1998 and the lowest 10.14% in 2021.

How does Georgia rank?

104th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Georgia?

In 2025, Georgia's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) fell 0.81 percentage points on 2024 (from 12.74% to 11.93%). Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1998 to 2024), the average change was −1.85 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.55 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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.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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