Qatar: Transport services (% of commercial service exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Qatar's transport services (% of commercial service exports) rose 6.28 percentage points on 2024 (from 60.65% to 66.94%).

Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was −0.75 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.94 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6.28 percentage points in 2025 and the biggest yearly fall was 17.63 percentage points in 2012. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.1 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 61% 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.

How it compares

In 2025, Qatar had the 4th 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.

Closest to Qatar in the 2025 ranking

• Mozambique — 1st of 134: 73.66%
• Venezuela, RB — 2nd of 134: 68.44%
• Brunei Darussalam — 4th of 134: 53.24%
• Panama — 5th of 134: 51.58%
• Nigeria — 6th of 134: 51.01%

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 15 values

Transport services (% of commercial service exports) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 14.49% (2020)
• Algeria — 27.65% (2025)
• Bahrain — 16.02% (2025)
• Djibouti — 84.28% (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 28.53% (2025)
• Iraq — 3.49% (2025)
• Israel — 7.78% (2025)
• Jordan — 17.34% (2024)
• Kuwait — 14.92% (2025)
• Lebanon

More private sector & trade data for Qatar

• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$37.54 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$88.77 billion (2025)
• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 58.6% (2025)
• Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 8.7% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 65.91% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 32.26% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 19.6% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Middle East & North Africa (% of total merchandise imports)

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Questions people ask

What is Qatar's transport services (% of commercial service exports)?

66.94% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2011?

It is down 3.46 percentage points from 70.4% in 2011. The highest value was 70.4% in 2011 and the lowest 50.32% in 2014.

How does Qatar rank?

4th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in transport services (% of commercial service exports) unusual for Qatar?

In 2025, Qatar's transport services (% of commercial service exports) rose 6.28 percentage points on 2024 (from 60.65% to 66.94%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was −0.75 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.94 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

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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