Liberia's transport services (% of commercial service imports) was 63.32% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 41.74 percentage points from 21.58% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 63.32% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 42.54% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 21.58% | 2014 |
| Highest | 90% | 1980 |
| Lowest | 11.89% | 2010 |
| Average since 2015 | 47.55% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 90% | 1979 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Liberia's transport services (% of commercial service imports) rose 1.02 percentage points on 2023 (from 62.3% to 63.32%).
Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1980 to 2023), the average change was −1.78 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 14.32 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 17.15 percentage points in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 48.45 percentage points in 2010. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.77 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 79% 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.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 74.21% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 3.71%, against 17.39% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, Liberia had the 5th highest value of the 29 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 63.32% | 2024 |
| World | 20.44% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 38.11% | 2025 |
| Low income | 56.68% | 2024 |
Closest to Liberia in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Transport is 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 imports which are commercial services provided by non-residents to residents.
Limitations: Balance of payments statistics, the main source of information on international trade in services, have many weaknesses. Disaggregation of important components may be limited and varies considerably across countries. There are inconsistencies in the methods used to report items. And the recording of major flows as net items is common (for example, insurance transactions are often recorded as premiums less claims). These factors contribute to a downward bias in the value of the service trade reported in the balance of payments. Efforts are being made to improve the coverage, quality, and consistency of these data.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 30 values
| Year | Transport services (% of commercial service imports) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 63.32 |
| 2023 | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 56.37 |
| 2021 | 43.27 |
| 2020 | 44.95 |
| 2019 | 42.54 |
| 2018 | 43.94 |
| 2017 | 39.01 |
| 2016 | 41.03 |
| 2015 | 38.73 |
| 2014 |
Transport services (% of commercial service imports) in nearby economies
- Angola — 40.85% (2025)
- Benin — 41.07% (2023)
- Botswana — 25.54% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 53.32% (2024)
- Burundi — 60.32% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 31.59% (2025)
- Cameroon — 46.51% (2024)
- Comoros — 40.87% (2023)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 48.53% (2025)
- Congo, Rep.
More private sector & trade data for Liberia
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 86.96% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$2.49 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$2.07 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 75.97% (2023)
- Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)
- Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$153.7 million (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 20.52% (2023)
- Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0% (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Liberia's transport services (% of commercial service imports)?
- 63.32% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1979?
- It is down 26.68 percentage points from 90% in 1979. The highest value was 90% in 1980 and the lowest 11.89% in 2010.
- How does Liberia rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.TRAN.ZS.WT, 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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