Qatar's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) was 64.98% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 15.55 percentage points from 49.43% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 64.98% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 58.04% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 49.43% | 2015 |
| Highest | 64.98% | 2025 |
| Lowest | 47.08% | 2012 |
| Average since 2016 | 58.34% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 53.13% | 2011 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Qatar's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 5.37 percentage points on 2024 (from 59.61% to 64.98%).
Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.5 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.74 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 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 7.68 percentage points in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.05 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 1.11 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 64% 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 3rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Qatar | 64.98% | 2025 |
| World | 15.43% | 2025 |
| High income | 15.42% | 2025 |
Closest to Qatar in the 2025 ranking
- Mozambique — 1st of 134: 73.66%
- Venezuela, RB — 2nd of 134: 67.72%
- Panama — 4th of 134: 51.24%
- Brunei Darussalam — 5th of 134: 51%
- Denmark — 6th of 134: 48.63%
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 15 values
| Year | Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.98 |
| 2024 | 59.61 |
| 2023 | 57.72 |
| 2022 | 62.71 |
| 2021 | 61.56 |
| 2020 | 58.04 |
| 2019 | 55.79 |
| 2018 | 55.06 |
| 2017 | 57.8 |
| 2016 | 50.13 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 12.38% (2020)
- Algeria — 27.47% (2025)
- Bahrain — 16.02% (2025)
- Djibouti — 60.51% (2024)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 28.07% (2025)
- Iraq — 3.43% (2025)
- Israel — 7.78% (2025)
- Jordan — 17.3% (2024)
- Kuwait — 14.27% (2025)
- Lebanon — 3.55% (2023)
More economic policy & debt data for Qatar
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$55.85 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$39.67 billion (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$3.03 billion (2025)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) — 1.41% (2025)
- GDP (current US$) — US$215.56 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 784.64 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$183.49 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 736.64 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$72,525 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 263,991 (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Qatar's transport services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 64.98% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2011?
- It is up 11.85 percentage points from 53.13% in 2011. The highest value was 64.98% in 2025 and the lowest 47.08% in 2012.
- How does Qatar rank?
- 3rd highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Qatar?
- In 2025, Qatar's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 5.37 percentage points on 2024 (from 59.61% to 64.98%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.5 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.74 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 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 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.
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