Travel services in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Travel services was 7.1% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Travel services in Bangladesh, 1976–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service exports.
Analysis
Bangladesh recorded 7.1% for travel services in 2025.
That represents a change of down 5.2% on the previous year and down 20.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, travel services in Bangladesh peaked at 23.3% in 1997 and was at its lowest, 5.1%, in 1994.
Bangladesh ranks 184th of 198 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 50 years of available data.
Travel services in Bangladesh, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service exports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7.5% | — |
| 1977 | 9.9% | +32.1% |
| 1978 | 7.5% | -24.2% |
| 1979 | 10.0% | +32.3% |
| 1980 | 9.2% | -7.2% |
| 1981 | 6.4% | -31.0% |
| 1982 | 14.9% | +134.2% |
| 1983 | 22.0% | +47.1% |
| 1984 | 17.2% | -22.0% |
| 1985 | 11.2% | -34.8% |
| 1986 | 7.6% | -32.4% |
| 1987 | 5.4% | -28.0% |
| 1988 | 5.8% | +6.3% |
| 1989 | 6.9% | +18.6% |
| 1990 | 6.4% | -6.8% |
| 1991 | 6.0% | -6.7% |
| 1992 | 6.3% | +6.0% |
| 1993 | 6.7% | +6.0% |
| 1994 | 5.1% | -24.1% |
| 1995 | 5.3% | +5.0% |
| 1996 | 15.0% | +179.6% |
| 1997 | 23.3% | +56.0% |
| 1998 | 20.8% | -11.0% |
| 1999 | 18.7% | -9.8% |
| 2000 | 17.8% | -5.2% |
| 2001 | 19.5% | +9.7% |
| 2002 | 16.2% | -16.7% |
| 2003 | 11.4% | -29.9% |
| 2004 | 14.0% | +23.2% |
| 2005 | 9.7% | -30.9% |
| 2006 | 8.7% | -10.2% |
| 2007 | 7.5% | -14.1% |
| 2008 | 6.8% | -9.4% |
| 2009 | 7.2% | +6.2% |
| 2010 | 6.6% | -8.7% |
| 2011 | 6.1% | -6.9% |
| 2012 | 7.6% | +24.4% |
| 2013 | 8.4% | +10.9% |
| 2014 | 9.3% | +10.9% |
| 2015 | 8.9% | -4.6% |
| 2016 | 10.6% | +19.2% |
| 2017 | 15.0% | +40.9% |
| 2018 | 11.9% | -20.7% |
| 2019 | 12.2% | +2.9% |
| 2020 | 7.1% | -42.3% |
| 2021 | 5.6% | -21.3% |
| 2022 | 7.4% | +33.9% |
| 2023 | 10.0% | +34.3% |
| 2024 | 7.5% | -24.7% |
| 2025 | 7.1% | -5.2% |
Bangladesh compared with similar countries
- Bangladesh's 7.1% is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 38.2%, 19% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Bangladesh's 7.1% is below the median for South Asia, which is 42.1%, 17% of the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Travel services in Bangladesh changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | +179.6% | 5.3% | 15.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8.7% | 7.5% | 10.0% | 4 |
| 1980s | 10.7% | 5.4% | 22.0% | 10 |
| 1990s | 11.4% | 5.1% | 23.3% | 10 |
| 2000s | 11.9% | 6.8% | 19.5% | 10 |
| 2010s | 9.7% | 6.1% | 15.0% | 10 |
| 2020s | 7.4% | 5.6% | 10.0% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Bangladesh
More private sector data for Bangladesh
- Merchandise trade 25.8% (2025)
- Food imports 13.0% (2018)
- Manufactures imports 67.0% (2018)
- Merchandise imports 69.37 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 3.4% (2018)
- Manufactures exports 94.5% (2018)
- Merchandise exports 48.17 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 274.16 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1056 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 1.95 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is travel services in Bangladesh?
- Travel services in Bangladesh was 7.1% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest travel services recorded in Bangladesh?
- The highest recorded value was 23.3% in 1997.
- What is the lowest travel services recorded in Bangladesh?
- The lowest recorded value was 5.1% in 1994.
- How does Bangladesh rank for travel services?
- Bangladesh ranks 184th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is travel services rising or falling in Bangladesh?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Bangladesh data come from?
- The figures come from Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF), published as part of Travel services (% of commercial service exports). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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 commercial services provided by residents to non-residents.