United Kingdom's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) was 6.35% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 3.07 percentage points from 9.41% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 6.35% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.3% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 9.41% | 2015 |
| Highest | 50.85% | 1971 |
| Lowest | 5.44% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 7.26% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 49.65% | 1970 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, United Kingdom's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.1 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.24% to 6.35%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.49 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.91 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 1.96 percentage points in 1988 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.06 percentage points in 1975. 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 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.31 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 58% 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.
How it compares
In 2025, United Kingdom had the 106th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6.35% | 2025 |
| World | 15.43% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 15.19% | 2025 |
| High income | 15.42% | 2025 |
Closest to United Kingdom in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Transport services covers 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 services provided by residents to non-residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 56 values
| Year | Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.35 |
| 2024 | 6.24 |
| 2023 | 7.07 |
| 2022 | 6.84 |
| 2021 | 5.44 |
| 2020 | 6.3 |
| 2019 | 8.72 |
| 2018 | 8.15 |
| 2017 | 8.58 |
| 2016 | 8.88 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Albania — 10.9% (2025)
- Armenia — 7.62% (2025)
- Austria — 22.34% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 42.52% (2025)
- Belarus — 42.31% (2021)
- Belgium — 19.66% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 16.86% (2025)
- Bulgaria — 15.48% (2025)
- Croatia — 6.95% (2025)
- Cyprus — 15.98% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for United Kingdom
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$214.36 billion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$170.78 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$849.56 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 645.22 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 21.23% (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$2.42 trillion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 1.84 trillion (2025)
- Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is United Kingdom's transport services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 6.35% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1970?
- It is down 43.3 percentage points from 49.65% in 1970. The highest value was 50.85% in 1971 and the lowest 5.44% in 2021.
- How does United Kingdom rank?
- 106th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for United Kingdom?
- In 2025, United Kingdom's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.1 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.24% to 6.35%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.49 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.91 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.TRAN.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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