Tonga's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) was 69.69% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.63 percentage points from 65.06% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 69.69% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 57.44% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 65.06% | 2015 |
| Highest | 88.62% | 1976 |
| Lowest | 22.02% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 52.2% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 75.58% | 1971 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Tonga's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 9.1 percentage points on 2024 (from 60.59% to 69.69%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1988 to 2024), the average change was +0.86 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 12.18 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 30.75 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 35.42 percentage points in 2021. 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 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, Tonga had the 22nd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tonga | 69.69% | 2025 |
| World | 19.75% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 23.42% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 32.98% | 2025 |
Closest to Tonga in the 2025 ranking
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 49 values
| Year | Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 69.69 |
| 2024 | 60.59 |
| 2023 | 52.92 |
| 2022 | 22.18 |
| 2021 | 22.02 |
| 2020 | 57.44 |
| 2019 | 58.75 |
| 2018 | 53.29 |
| 2017 | 59.33 |
| 2016 | 65.75 |
| 2015 |
Travel services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Australia — 60.27% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 34.85% (2025)
- Cambodia — 72.58% (2025)
- China — 14.34% (2025)
- Fiji — 53.08% (2024)
- French Polynesia — 47.68% (2016)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 21.54% (2025)
- Indonesia — 42.92% (2025)
- Japan — 26.03% (2025)
- Kiribati — 27.03% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Tonga
- Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$121.36 million (2023)
- Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$9.6 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$) — US$129.55 million (2023)
- Net ODA received per capita (current US$) — US$1,239 (2023)
- Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$108.76 million (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Tonga's travel services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 69.69% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1971?
- It is down 5.89 percentage points from 75.58% in 1971. The highest value was 88.62% in 1976 and the lowest 22.02% in 2021.
- How does Tonga rank?
- 22nd highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in travel services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Tonga?
- In 2025, Tonga's travel services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 9.1 percentage points on 2024 (from 60.59% to 69.69%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1988 to 2024), the average change was +0.86 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 12.18 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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