South Africa - Travel services imports

Travel services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in South Africa was 8.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.18 in 1993 and a minimum value of 8.40 in 2020.

Definition: Travel services (% of commercial service imports) 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, meals, and transport (within the economy visited).

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

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Year Value
1960 24.00
1961 27.22
1962 24.06
1963 20.17
1964 20.52
1965 18.50
1966 19.40
1967 19.63
1968 20.45
1969 21.81
1970 23.78
1971 24.06
1972 26.96
1973 24.88
1974 25.63
1975 24.28
1976 26.07
1977 25.54
1978 23.65
1979 25.37
1980 24.22
1981 21.75
1982 23.21
1983 24.39
1984 23.91
1985 19.90
1986 24.06
1987 28.66
1988 31.66
1989 27.48
1990 30.77
1991 31.73
1992 36.87
1993 41.18
1994 38.00
1995 32.07
1996 31.79
1997 33.70
1998 34.83
1999 36.25
2000 36.68
2001 36.68
2002 33.69
2003 36.82
2004 31.37
2005 28.45
2006 24.77
2007 25.02
2008 26.94
2009 28.22
2010 29.49
2011 26.20
2012 22.32
2013 19.57
2014 18.94
2015 19.59
2016 19.19
2017 20.11
2018 20.49
2019 19.49
2020 8.40

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports