Qatar's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) was 21.57% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 12 percentage points from 33.58% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 21.57% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 18.34% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 33.58% | 2015 |
| Highest | 35.66% | 2016 |
| Lowest | 15.82% | 2011 |
| Average since 2016 | 27.16% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 15.82% | 2011 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Qatar's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) fell 6.35 percentage points on 2024 (from 27.92% to 21.57%).
Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.93 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.36 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations below 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 12.98 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 10.14 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 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.13 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 39% 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 88th 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 | 21.57% | 2025 |
| World | 19.75% | 2025 |
| High income | 18.09% | 2025 |
Closest to Qatar in the 2025 ranking
- Kazakhstan — 84th of 134: 22.54%
- Mozambique — 85th of 134: 21.83%
- Hungary — 86th of 134: 21.57%
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 88th of 134: 21.54%
- Czechia — 89th of 134: 21.39%
- France — 90th of 134: 20.44%
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 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 | Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 21.57 |
| 2024 | 27.92 |
| 2023 | 28.57 |
| 2022 | 23.63 |
| 2021 | 23.24 |
| 2020 | 18.34 |
| 2019 | 28.47 |
| 2018 | 30.46 |
| 2017 | 33.72 |
| 2016 | 35.66 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 9.23% (2020)
- Algeria — 3.84% (2025)
- Bahrain — 33.49% (2025)
- Djibouti — 4.42% (2024)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 53.53% (2025)
- Iraq — 71.39% (2025)
- Israel — 3.56% (2025)
- Jordan — 76.5% (2024)
- Kuwait — 16.71% (2025)
- Lebanon — 68.29% (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 travel services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 21.57% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2011?
- It is up 5.75 percentage points from 15.82% in 2011. The highest value was 35.66% in 2016 and the lowest 15.82% in 2011.
- How does Qatar rank?
- 88th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Qatar?
- In 2025, Qatar's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) fell 6.35 percentage points on 2024 (from 27.92% to 21.57%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.93 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.36 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations below 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.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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