Israel's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) was 20.04% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.78 percentage points from 24.82% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 20.04% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.17% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 24.82% | 2015 |
| Highest | 36.16% | 1981 |
| Lowest | 6.17% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | 18.99% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 9.17% | 1960 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Israel's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 1.24 percentage points on 2024 (from 18.79% to 20.04%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.31 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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 9.19 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 17.85 percentage points in 2020. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 9% 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 2025, Israel had the 72nd 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Israel | 20.04% | 2025 |
| World | 20.43% | 2025 |
| High income | 18.17% | 2025 |
Closest to Israel in the 2025 ranking
- Dominican Republic — 68th of 134: 20.49%
- Slovak Republic — 69th of 134: 20.08%
- North Macedonia — 70th of 134: 20.06%
- Cambodia — 72nd of 134: 19.96%
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 73rd of 134: 19.89%
- Bolivia — 74th of 134: 19.73%
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 63 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.04 |
| 2024 | 18.79 |
| 2023 | 21.14 |
| 2022 | 18.03 |
| 2021 | 8.84 |
| 2020 | 6.17 |
| 2019 | 24.02 |
| 2018 | 24.39 |
| 2017 | 23.97 |
| 2016 | 24.52 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 2.72% (2020)
- Algeria — 14.56% (2025)
- Bahrain — 11.68% (2025)
- Djibouti — 2.9% (2024)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 14.47% (2025)
- Iraq — 32.6% (2025)
- Jordan — 29.76% (2024)
- Kuwait — 43.03% (2025)
- Lebanon — 55.66% (2023)
- Libya — 26.65% (2023)
More economic policy & debt data for Israel
- Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$4.91 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$229.49 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$229.49 billion (2025)
- Gross fixed capital formation (current US$) — US$145.39 billion (2025)
- Gross fixed capital formation (current LCU) — 501.88 billion (2025)
- Gross fixed capital formation (constant 2015 US$) — US$102.07 billion (2025)
- Gross fixed capital formation (constant LCU) — 412.25 billion (2025)
- Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP) — 23.8% (2025)
- Changes in inventories (current US$) — US$3.31 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Israel's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 20.04% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is up 10.87 percentage points from 9.17% in 1960. The highest value was 36.16% in 1981 and the lowest 6.17% in 2020.
- How does Israel rank?
- 72nd highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Israel?
- In 2025, Israel's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 1.24 percentage points on 2024 (from 18.79% to 20.04%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.31 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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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