St. Kitts and Nevis's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) was 78.17% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 14.36 percentage points from 63.81% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 78.17% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 32.82% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 63.81% | 2015 |
| Highest | 99% | 1981 |
| Lowest | 32.82% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | 62.63% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 98.77% | 1980 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, St. Kitts and Nevis' travel services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 5.75 percentage points on 2024 (from 72.42% to 78.17%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.36 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.61 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 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 15.98 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 36.88 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% 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, St. Kitts and Nevis had the 12th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 78.17% | 2025 |
| World | 19.75% | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 41% | 2025 |
| High income | 18.09% | 2025 |
Closest to St. Kitts and Nevis in the 2025 ranking
- Lao PDR — 9th of 134: 81%
- Dominican Republic — 10th of 134: 78.43%
- Cabo Verde — 11th of 134: 78.29%
- Zambia — 13th of 134: 76.62%
- Kosovo — 14th of 134: 75.08%
- Timor-Leste — 15th of 134: 74.64%
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 46 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.17 |
| 2024 | 72.42 |
| 2023 | 63.72 |
| 2022 | 58.3 |
| 2021 | 42.32 |
| 2020 | 32.82 |
| 2019 | 69.7 |
| 2018 | 65.66 |
| 2017 | 73.91 |
| 2016 | 69.24 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 84.27% (2025)
- Argentina — 26.45% (2025)
- Aruba — 87.83% (2023)
- Bahamas, The — 93.9% (2024)
- Barbados — 70.71% (2017)
- Belize — 68.14% (2025)
- Bolivia — 64.55% (2025)
- Brazil — 19.2% (2025)
- Chile — 29.54% (2025)
- Colombia — 48.42% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for St. Kitts and Nevis
- GDP (current US$) — US$1.18 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 3.2 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$25,223 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 68,102 (2025)
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 1.63% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, consumption of fixed capital (current US$) — US$110.97 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$0 (2021)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$) — US$15.26 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is St. Kitts and Nevis's travel services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 78.17% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1980?
- It is down 20.6 percentage points from 98.77% in 1980. The highest value was 99% in 1981 and the lowest 32.82% in 2020.
- How does St. Kitts and Nevis rank?
- 12th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for St. Kitts and Nevis?
- In 2025, St. Kitts and Nevis' travel services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 5.75 percentage points on 2024 (from 72.42% to 78.17%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.36 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.61 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 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 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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