Private Sector & Trade · South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Yearly data from 1975 to 2025, from the World Bank.
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)'s transport services (% of commercial service exports) was 9.58% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 1.95 percentage points from 11.54% in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 9.58% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 12.5% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 11.54% | 2015 |
| Highest | 41.55% | 1975 |
| Lowest | 9.58% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 11.71% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 41.55% | 1975 |
Over five years it is down 2.92 percentage points from 12.5% in 2020. Since 1975 it is down 31.97 percentage points from 41.55% in 1975.
In 2025, South Asia (IDA & IBRD)'s transport services (% of commercial service exports) fell 1.47 percentage points on 2024 (from 11.05% to 9.58%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.54 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.71 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below 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 3.63 percentage points in 1994 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.84 percentage points in 1976. 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 3% 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.
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 9.58% | 2025 |
| World | 18.06% | 2025 |
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.
| Year | Transport services (% of commercial service exports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.58 |
| 2024 | 11.05 |
| 2023 | 10.32 |
| 2022 | 13.89 |
| 2021 | 14.18 |
| 2020 | 12.5 |
| 2019 | 11.61 |
| 2018 | 11.36 |
| 2017 | 11.21 |
| 2016 | 11.38 |
| 2015 | 11.54 |
| 2014 | 13.89 |
| 2013 | 14.48 |
| 2012 | 14.78 |
| 2011 | 14.64 |
| 2010 | 12.92 |
| 2009 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 13.25 |
| 2007 | 12.7 |
| 2006 | 13.43 |
| 2005 | 14.06 |
| 2004 | 14.37 |
| 2003 | 15.69 |
| 2002 | 17.09 |
| 2001 | 17.39 |
| 2000 | 17.07 |
| 1999 | 16.47 |
| 1998 | 19.13 |
| 1997 | 23.8 |
| 1996 | 29.1 |
| 1995 | 27.02 |
| 1994 | 27.17 |
| 1993 | 23.55 |
| 1992 | 20.54 |
| 1991 | 19.51 |
| 1990 | 20.59 |
| 1989 | 20.53 |
| 1988 | 22.65 |
| 1987 | 19.33 |
| 1986 | 17.02 |
| 1985 | 16.18 |
| 1984 | 16.34 |
| 1983 | 14.43 |
| 1982 | 15.76 |
| 1981 | 17.96 |
| 1980 | 16.5 |
| 1979 | 20.57 |
| 1978 | 22.73 |
| 1977 | 28.22 |
| 1976 | 34.71 |
| 1975 | 41.55 |
Every indicator for South Asia (IDA & IBRD) is on the South Asia (IDA & IBRD) data page.
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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