Timor-Leste's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) was 42.84% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 30.35 percentage points from 12.49% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 42.84% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.33% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 12.49% | 2015 |
| Highest | 42.84% | 2025 |
| Lowest | 0.71% | 2006 |
| Average since 2016 | 21.9% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 0.71% | 2006 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Timor-Leste's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 9.82 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.02% to 42.84%).
Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was +1.8 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.31 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 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 21.82 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 11.39 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 18% 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, Timor-Leste had the 10th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Timor-Leste | 42.84% | 2025 |
| World | 20.43% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 25.16% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 19.46% | 2025 |
Closest to Timor-Leste in the 2025 ranking
- Russian Federation — 7th of 134: 51.89%
- Ukraine — 8th of 134: 46.96%
- Kuwait — 9th of 134: 43.03%
- Australia — 11th of 134: 41.26%
- Uzbekistan — 12th of 134: 41.25%
- China — 13th of 134: 40.78%
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 imports which are services provided by non-residents to residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 20 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.84 |
| 2024 | 33.02 |
| 2023 | 32.87 |
| 2022 | 11.04 |
| 2021 | 5.09 |
| 2020 | 6.33 |
| 2019 | 17.72 |
| 2018 | 25.77 |
| 2017 | 27.45 |
| 2016 | 16.83 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 41.26% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 36.41% (2025)
- Cambodia — 19.96% (2025)
- China — 40.78% (2025)
- Fiji — 29.02% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 39.55% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 32.48% (2025)
- Indonesia — 22.49% (2025)
- Japan — 7.23% (2025)
- Kiribati — 18.88% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Timor-Leste
- Short-term debt (% of total external debt) — 0.43% (2024)
- IFC, private nonguaranteed (NFL, current US$) — −US$750,000 (2024)
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 3.19% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$0 (2021)
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$221.69 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$259.94 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$259.94 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$259.94 million (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Timor-Leste's travel services (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 42.84% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2006?
- It is up 42.13 percentage points from 0.71% in 2006. The highest value was 42.84% in 2025 and the lowest 0.71% in 2006.
- How does Timor-Leste rank?
- 10th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Timor-Leste?
- In 2025, Timor-Leste's travel services (% of service imports, BoP) rose 9.82 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.02% to 42.84%). Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2007 to 2024), the average change was +1.8 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.31 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 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 BM.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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