Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Palestine
Palestine: Travel services (% of commercial service imports) was 38.3% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Travel services in Palestine, 1995–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service imports.
Analysis
Palestine recorded 38.3% for travel services in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 65.3% on the previous year and down 16.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, travel services in Palestine peaked at 76.6% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 23.2%, in 2024.
That places Palestine 34th out of 198 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Palestine, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service imports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 46.3% | — |
| 1996 | 49.2% | +6.1% |
| 1997 | 49.7% | +1.1% |
| 1998 | 60.6% | +22.0% |
| 1999 | 63.2% | +4.2% |
| 2000 | 65.6% | +3.8% |
| 2001 | 71.1% | +8.4% |
| 2002 | 74.6% | +4.9% |
| 2003 | 71.6% | -4.0% |
| 2004 | 67.6% | -5.5% |
| 2005 | 50.5% | -25.4% |
| 2006 | 50.4% | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 64.3% | +27.7% |
| 2008 | 71.8% | +11.6% |
| 2009 | 69.0% | -3.9% |
| 2010 | 70.3% | +1.8% |
| 2011 | 71.7% | +2.0% |
| 2012 | 65.8% | -8.2% |
| 2013 | 66.6% | +1.2% |
| 2014 | 57.5% | -13.7% |
| 2015 | 45.9% | -20.3% |
| 2016 | 48.6% | +6.1% |
| 2017 | 55.5% | +14.0% |
| 2018 | 50.4% | -9.1% |
| 2019 | 76.6% | +51.9% |
| 2020 | 74.3% | -3.0% |
| 2021 | 70.5% | -5.0% |
| 2022 | 70.5% | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 37.8% | -46.4% |
| 2024 | 23.2% | -38.6% |
| 2025 | 38.3% | +65.3% |
Palestine compared with similar countries
- Palestine's 38.3% is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 17.1%, 2.2× the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Palestine's 38.3% is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 23.9%, 1.6× the median. (22 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Palestine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | +65.3% | 23.2% | 38.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 53.8% | 46.3% | 63.2% | 5 |
| 2000s | 65.7% | 50.4% | 74.6% | 10 |
| 2010s | 60.9% | 45.9% | 76.6% | 10 |
| 2020s | 52.4% | 23.2% | 74.3% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Palestine
More private sector data for Palestine
- Food imports 30.9% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 45.9% (2023)
- Commercial service imports 1.23 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.4% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 63.3% (2023)
- Commercial service exports 558.70 million current US$ (2025)
- Transport services 47.1% (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services 8.6% (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services 64.7% (2025)
- Commercial service exports (current US$), per capita 103.2 current US$ per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is travel services in Palestine?
- Travel services in Palestine was 38.3% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest travel services recorded in Palestine?
- The highest recorded value was 76.6% in 2019.
- What is the lowest travel services recorded in Palestine?
- The lowest recorded value was 23.2% in 2024.
- How does Palestine rank for travel services?
- Palestine ranks 34th out of 198 countries with data for 2025.
- Is travel services rising or falling in Palestine?
- Over the last ten years it is down 16.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Palestine 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 — 31 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.