Tanzania's international tourism, receipts for travel items (current US$) was US$2.6 billion in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 124.52% from US$1.16 billion in 2009 (8.42% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$2.6 billion | 2019 |
| Five years earlier | US$2.01 billion | 2014 |
| Ten years earlier | US$1.16 billion | 2009 |
| Highest | US$2.6 billion | 2019 |
| Lowest | US$339 million | 1997 |
| Average since 2010 | US$1.95 billion | 2010–2019 |
| First recorded | US$502 million |
What the numbers say
In 2019, Tanzania's international tourism, receipts for travel items (current US$) rose 6.3% on 2018 (from US$2.45 billion to US$2.6 billion).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2018), the average change was +8.5% and a typical year strayed about 17.6% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 63.1% in 2001 and the biggest yearly fall was 28.3% in 1997. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is upward, about US$140.3 million a year. A straight line explains 95% 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.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about US$2.95 billion for 2022. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2017 to 2019 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was US$89.82 million, against US$302.47 million for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2019, Tanzania had the 2nd highest value of the 11 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | US$2.6 billion | 2019 |
| World | US$1.47 trillion | 2019 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | US$28.8 billion | 2019 |
| Lower middle income | US$139.93 billion | 2019 |
Closest to Tanzania in the 2019 ranking
What this measures
International tourism receipts for travel items are expenditures by international inbound visitors in the reporting economy. The goods and services are purchased by, or on behalf of, the traveler or provided, without a quid pro quo, for the traveler to use or give away. These receipts should include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except in cases where these are so important as to justify a separate classification. Excluded is the international carriage of travelers, which is covered in passenger travel items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.
All 25 values
| Year | International tourism, receipts for travel items (current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 2,604,399,902 |
| 2018 | 2,449,000,000 |
| 2017 | 2,250,000,000 |
| 2016 | 2,132,000,000 |
| 2015 | 1,902,000,000 |
| 2014 | 2,010,000,000 |
| 2013 | 1,880,000,000 |
| 2012 | 1,713,000,000 |
| 2011 | 1,353,000,000 |
| 2010 | 1,255,000,000 |
International tourism, receipts for travel items (current US$) in nearby economies
- Angola — US$16 million (2020)
- Benin — US$240 million (2019)
- Botswana — US$211 million (2020)
- Burkina Faso — US$116 million (2019)
- Burundi — US$3.9 million (2018)
- Cabo Verde — US$159 million (2020)
- Cameroon — US$437 million (2020)
- Comoros — US$18 million (2020)
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
More private sector & trade data for Tanzania
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 27.47% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$14.81 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$9.96 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 18.85% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 41.68% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 49.37% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Middle East & North Africa (% of total merchandise imports) — 1.18% (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Tanzania's international tourism, receipts for travel items (current US$)?
- US$2.6 billion in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 418.8% from US$502 million in 1995 (7.1% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$2.6 billion in 2019 and the lowest US$339 million in 1997.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator ST.INT.TVLR.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism 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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