Kiribati's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) was 28.61% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 15.52 percentage points from 13.09% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 28.61% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 0.85% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 13.09% | 2015 |
| Highest | 66.29% | 1981 |
| Lowest | 0.85% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | 20.52% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 48.62% | 1979 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kiribati's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) fell 1.38 percentage points on 2024 (from 30% to 28.61%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2024), the average change was −0.84 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 12.57 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations below 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 43.5 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 28.34 percentage points in 2022. 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 24% 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, Kiribati had the 28th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Kiribati | 28.61% | 2025 |
| World | 15.43% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 20.15% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 10.98% | 2025 |
Closest to Kiribati in the 2025 ranking
- Russian Federation — 25th of 134: 29.86%
- Peru — 26th of 134: 29.83%
- Slovak Republic — 27th of 134: 29.2%
- Latvia — 29th of 134: 28.28%
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 30th of 134: 28.07%
- Algeria — 31st of 134: 27.47%
What this measures
Transport services covers the process of carriage of people and objects from one location to another as well as related supporting and auxiliary services. Also included are postal and courier services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service exports which are services provided by residents to non-residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 36 values
| Year | Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 28.61 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2023 | 24.82 |
| 2022 | 16.01 |
| 2021 | 44.35 |
| 2020 | 0.851 |
| 2019 | 11.29 |
| 2018 | 21.72 |
| 2017 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 10.78 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 6.09% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 51% (2025)
- Cambodia — 13.35% (2025)
- China — 18.35% (2025)
- Fiji — 38.43% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 30.38% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 30.58% (2025)
- Indonesia — 14.24% (2025)
- Japan — 12.77% (2025)
- Korea, Rep.
More economic policy & debt data for Kiribati
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$96.28 million (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$74.04 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$) — US$98.32 million (2023)
- Net ODA received per capita (current US$) — US$741.9 (2023)
- Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Kiribati's transport services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 28.61% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1979?
- It is down 20.01 percentage points from 48.62% in 1979. The highest value was 66.29% in 1981 and the lowest 0.85% in 2020.
- How does Kiribati rank?
- 28th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Kiribati?
- In 2025, Kiribati's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) fell 1.38 percentage points on 2024 (from 30% to 28.61%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1983 to 2024), the average change was −0.84 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 12.57 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations below 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 BX.GSR.TRAN.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.
Want to ask your own questions of data like this? Try AnalyzeIt: upload a file or ask about public data in plain words, and every figure comes with its working.
Legal entity
Devansh Yadav
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Governing law: Courts at Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Phone: +91 8433475698
Legal: legal@analyzeit.in