Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Travel services exports

Travel services (% of commercial service exports)

The value for Travel services (% of commercial service exports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 29.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 42 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.05 in 2003 and a minimum value of 22.08 in 1986.

Definition: Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited).

Source: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1978 23.12
1979 23.84
1980 28.22
1981 28.47
1982 27.01
1983 24.17
1984 23.23
1985 22.39
1986 22.08
1987 23.71
1988 24.02
1989 26.52
1990 27.18
1991 26.59
1992 28.94
1993 29.10
1994 28.08
1995 31.23
1996 33.85
1997 30.21
1998 38.42
1999 39.75
2000 38.85
2001 39.93
2002 43.62
2003 45.05
2004 43.76
2005 42.88
2006 42.57
2007 41.39
2008 39.23
2009 40.43
2010 37.28
2011 36.42
2012 35.20
2013 36.13
2014 37.64
2015 33.95
2016 38.50
2017 39.63
2018 41.62
2019 42.25
2020 29.20

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports