Travel services in East Asia & Pacific
East Asia & Pacific: Travel services was 28.0% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Travel services in East Asia & Pacific, 1996–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service imports.
Analysis
In 2025, travel services in East Asia & Pacific stood at 28.0%.
That represents a change of down 1.9% on the previous year and down 22.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, travel services in East Asia & Pacific peaked at 36.4% in 2016 and was at its lowest, 13.6%, in 2021.
East Asia & Pacific ranks 10th of 47 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 30 years of available data.
Travel services in East Asia & Pacific, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service imports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 22.4% | — |
| 1997 | 25.4% | +13.4% |
| 1998 | 26.8% | +5.6% |
| 1999 | 28.1% | +4.8% |
| 2000 | 28.6% | +2.0% |
| 2001 | 28.5% | -0.6% |
| 2002 | 28.3% | -0.4% |
| 2003 | 25.4% | -10.4% |
| 2004 | 25.8% | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 25.2% | -2.4% |
| 2006 | 23.4% | -7.1% |
| 2007 | 22.6% | -3.3% |
| 2008 | 21.6% | -4.3% |
| 2009 | 24.4% | +12.8% |
| 2010 | 25.1% | +2.8% |
| 2011 | 25.1% | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 27.9% | +10.8% |
| 2013 | 28.8% | +3.3% |
| 2014 | 33.8% | +17.3% |
| 2015 | 35.9% | +6.1% |
| 2016 | 36.4% | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 35.6% | -2.1% |
| 2018 | 35.1% | -1.4% |
| 2019 | 35.0% | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 19.2% | -45.2% |
| 2021 | 13.6% | -29.0% |
| 2022 | 16.9% | +24.0% |
| 2023 | 25.9% | +53.7% |
| 2024 | 28.5% | +10.0% |
| 2025 | 28.0% | -1.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Travel services in East Asia & Pacific 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | +53.7% | 16.9% | 25.9% |
| 2020 | -45.2% | 35.0% | 19.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 25.6% | 22.4% | 28.1% | 4 |
| 2000s | 25.4% | 21.6% | 28.6% | 10 |
| 2010s | 31.9% | 25.1% | 36.4% | 10 |
| 2020s | 22.0% | 13.6% | 28.5% | 6 |
Countries ranked near East Asia & Pacific
More private sector data for East Asia & Pacific
- Merchandise trade 50.6% (2025)
- Food imports 7.4% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 60.7% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 7.80 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 4.4% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 81.4% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 9.23 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 3,860 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2742 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 9.24 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is travel services in East Asia & Pacific?
- Travel services in East Asia & Pacific was 28.0% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest travel services recorded in East Asia & Pacific?
- The highest recorded value was 36.4% in 2016.
- What is the lowest travel services recorded in East Asia & Pacific?
- The lowest recorded value was 13.6% in 2021.
- How does East Asia & Pacific rank for travel services?
- East Asia & Pacific ranks 10th out of 47 groups with data for 2025.
- Is travel services rising or falling in East Asia & Pacific?
- Over the last ten years it is down 22.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this East Asia & Pacific 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 imports). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 30 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).
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 imports which are commercial services provided by non-residents to residents.