Travel services in Lower middle income
Lower middle income: Travel services was 16.1% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Travel services in Lower middle income, 1976–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service exports.
Analysis
Lower middle income recorded 16.1% for travel services in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 14.2% on the previous year and down 40.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, travel services in Lower middle income peaked at 40.1% in 1980 and was at its lowest, 13.1%, in 2021.
That places Lower middle income 42nd out of 45 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 50 years of available data.
Travel services in Lower middle income, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service exports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 30.6% | — |
| 1977 | 36.4% | +19.0% |
| 1978 | 36.5% | +0.1% |
| 1979 | 34.3% | -6.0% |
| 1980 | 40.1% | +16.9% |
| 1981 | 37.1% | -7.6% |
| 1982 | 34.9% | -5.9% |
| 1983 | 33.2% | -4.7% |
| 1984 | 26.6% | -19.8% |
| 1985 | 28.1% | +5.4% |
| 1986 | 38.1% | +35.5% |
| 1987 | 36.8% | -3.3% |
| 1988 | 32.5% | -11.6% |
| 1989 | 30.7% | -5.7% |
| 1990 | 29.7% | -3.3% |
| 1991 | 31.6% | +6.5% |
| 1992 | 36.3% | +14.9% |
| 1993 | 35.5% | -2.1% |
| 1994 | 33.3% | -6.4% |
| 1995 | 33.7% | +1.3% |
| 1996 | 34.0% | +0.8% |
| 1997 | 31.2% | -8.2% |
| 1998 | 30.1% | -3.6% |
| 1999 | 27.9% | -7.3% |
| 2000 | 27.0% | -3.2% |
| 2001 | 26.8% | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 25.2% | -6.1% |
| 2003 | 25.8% | +2.5% |
| 2004 | 25.4% | -1.7% |
| 2005 | 26.3% | +3.5% |
| 2006 | 23.4% | -11.0% |
| 2007 | 27.6% | +18.2% |
| 2008 | 27.9% | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 29.0% | +4.0% |
| 2010 | 27.6% | -4.9% |
| 2011 | 27.9% | +1.2% |
| 2012 | 27.9% | -0.3% |
| 2013 | 27.8% | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 29.2% | +5.0% |
| 2015 | 26.9% | -8.0% |
| 2016 | 28.4% | +5.5% |
| 2017 | 31.2% | +10.0% |
| 2018 | 29.2% | -6.5% |
| 2019 | 28.6% | -1.8% |
| 2020 | 14.4% | -49.5% |
| 2021 | 13.1% | -9.5% |
| 2022 | 19.6% | +50.0% |
| 2023 | 20.1% | +2.6% |
| 2024 | 18.8% | -6.7% |
| 2025 | 16.1% | -14.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 34.5% | 30.6% | 36.5% | 4 |
| 1980s | 33.8% | 26.6% | 40.1% | 10 |
| 1990s | 32.3% | 27.9% | 36.3% | 10 |
| 2000s | 26.4% | 23.4% | 29.0% | 10 |
| 2010s | 28.5% | 26.9% | 31.2% | 10 |
| 2020s | 17.0% | 13.1% | 20.1% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Lower middle income
More private sector data for Lower middle income
- Merchandise trade 35.7% (2025)
- Food imports 9.8% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 51.4% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 1.56 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 14.8% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 50.0% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 1.06 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 358.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1444 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 5.93 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is travel services in Lower middle income?
- Travel services in Lower middle income was 16.1% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest travel services recorded in Lower middle income?
- The highest recorded value was 40.1% in 1980.
- What is the lowest travel services recorded in Lower middle income?
- The lowest recorded value was 13.1% in 2021.
- How does Lower middle income rank for travel services?
- Lower middle income ranks 42nd out of 45 groups with data for 2025.
- Is travel services rising or falling in Lower middle income?
- Over the last ten years it is down 40.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Lower middle income 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.