Kiribati's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) was 18.88% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 3.82 percentage points from 15.06% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 18.88% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 7.81% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 15.06% | 2015 |
| Highest | 23.37% | 2009 |
| Lowest | 7.1% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 15.76% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 17.25% | 1985 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kiribati's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 3.7 percentage points on 2024 (from 15.18% to 18.88%).
Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1986 to 2024), the average change was +0.21 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.92 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 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 12.12 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.35 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 less than 1% 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 78th 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 | 18.88% | 2025 |
| World | 20.43% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 25.16% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 19.46% | 2025 |
Closest to Kiribati in the 2025 ranking
- Bolivia — 74th of 134: 19.73%
- Korea, Rep. — 75th of 134: 19.33%
- Thailand — 76th of 134: 19.05%
- Austria — 78th of 134: 18.71%
- Honduras — 79th of 134: 17.83%
- St. Kitts and Nevis — 80th of 134: 17.8%
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 30 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 18.88 |
| 2024 | 15.18 |
| 2023 | 16.1 |
| 2022 | 19.22 |
| 2021 | 7.1 |
| 2020 | 7.81 |
| 2019 | 20.17 |
| 2018 | 18.88 |
| 2017 | 17.11 |
| 2016 | 17.19 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 41.26% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 36.41% (2025)
- Cambodia — 19.96% (2025)
- China — 40.78% (2025)
- Fiji — 29.02% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 39.55% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 32.48% (2025)
- Indonesia — 22.49% (2025)
- Japan — 7.23% (2025)
- Korea, Rep. — 19.33% (2025)
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 travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 18.88% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1985?
- It is up 1.63 percentage points from 17.25% in 1985. The highest value was 23.37% in 2009 and the lowest 7.1% in 2021.
- How does Kiribati rank?
- 78th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Kiribati?
- In 2025, Kiribati's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 3.7 percentage points on 2024 (from 15.18% to 18.88%). Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1986 to 2024), the average change was +0.21 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.92 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 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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