New Zealand's transport services (% of commercial service exports) was 12.67% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.15 percentage points from 12.83% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 12.67% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 10.81% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 12.83% | 2015 |
| Highest | 23.83% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 10.76% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 12.55% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 23.83% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, New Zealand's transport services (% of commercial service exports) rose 0.02 percentage points on 2024 (from 12.65% to 12.67%).
Across the 24 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2024), the average change was −0.47 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.37 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 3.71 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.4 percentage points in 2002. 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 6% 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, New Zealand had the 83rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 12.67% | 2025 |
| World | 18.06% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 19.36% | 2025 |
| High income | 18.21% | 2025 |
Closest to New Zealand in the 2025 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 exports which are commercial services provided by residents to non-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 26 values
| Year | Transport services (% of commercial service exports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12.67 |
| 2024 | 12.65 |
| 2023 | 13.93 |
| 2022 | 14.47 |
| 2021 | 10.76 |
| 2020 | 10.81 |
| 2019 | 12.71 |
| 2018 | 12.63 |
| 2017 | 12.51 |
| 2016 | 12.4 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of commercial service exports) in nearby economies
- Australia — 6.14% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 53.24% (2025)
- Cambodia — 13.83% (2025)
- China — 18.42% (2025)
- Fiji — 39.94% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 36.16% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 30.58% (2025)
- Indonesia — 14.32% (2025)
- Japan — 12.95% (2025)
- Kiribati
More private sector & trade data for New Zealand
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 35.69% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$47.55 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$46.7 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.73% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 63.03% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 4.56% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 32.41% (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is New Zealand's transport services (% of commercial service exports)?
- 12.67% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
- It is down 11.16 percentage points from 23.83% in 2000. The highest value was 23.83% in 2000 and the lowest 10.76% in 2021.
- How does New Zealand rank?
- 83rd highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of commercial service exports) unusual for New Zealand?
- In 2025, New Zealand's transport services (% of commercial service exports) rose 0.02 percentage points on 2024 (from 12.65% to 12.67%). Across the 24 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2024), the average change was −0.47 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.37 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 TX.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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