Travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income): Travel services was 23.4% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income), 1982–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of service exports, BoP.
Analysis
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) recorded 23.4% for travel services in 2025.
That represents a change of down 1.8% on the previous year and down 31.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) peaked at 46.9% in 1990 and was at its lowest, 4.6%, in 2021.
That places East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 25th out of 45 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 44 years of available data.
Travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income), year by year
| Year | % of service exports, BoP | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 37.1% | — |
| 1983 | 38.5% | +3.9% |
| 1984 | 39.6% | +2.7% |
| 1985 | 37.8% | -4.4% |
| 1986 | 38.9% | +2.8% |
| 1987 | 43.1% | +11.0% |
| 1988 | 46.5% | +7.9% |
| 1989 | 46.0% | -1.2% |
| 1990 | 46.9% | +1.9% |
| 1991 | 46.3% | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 46.1% | -0.5% |
| 1993 | 46.2% | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 45.3% | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 44.7% | -1.2% |
| 1996 | 43.4% | -3.0% |
| 1997 | 29.3% | -32.6% |
| 1998 | 27.3% | -6.8% |
| 1999 | 31.0% | +13.8% |
| 2000 | 30.6% | -1.3% |
| 2001 | 30.4% | -0.6% |
| 2002 | 29.7% | -2.6% |
| 2003 | 37.7% | +27.2% |
| 2004 | 38.0% | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 39.4% | +3.5% |
| 2006 | 41.4% | +5.3% |
| 2007 | 36.1% | -12.8% |
| 2008 | 33.6% | -7.0% |
| 2009 | 35.4% | +5.3% |
| 2010 | 33.8% | -4.5% |
| 2011 | 33.6% | -0.4% |
| 2012 | 34.7% | +3.1% |
| 2013 | 36.2% | +4.4% |
| 2014 | 33.1% | -8.5% |
| 2015 | 34.2% | +3.1% |
| 2016 | 35.2% | +2.9% |
| 2017 | 34.9% | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 34.4% | -1.5% |
| 2019 | 34.3% | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 10.3% | -69.8% |
| 2021 | 4.6% | -55.6% |
| 2022 | 10.7% | +134.1% |
| 2023 | 20.3% | +88.7% |
| 2024 | 23.8% | +17.6% |
| 2025 | 23.4% | -1.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | +134.1% | 4.6% | 10.7% |
| 2023 | +88.7% | 10.7% | 20.3% |
| 2020 | -69.8% | 34.3% | 10.3% |
| 2021 | -55.6% | 10.3% | 4.6% |
| 1997 | -32.6% | 43.4% | 29.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 40.9% | 37.1% | 46.5% | 8 |
| 1990s | 40.6% | 27.3% | 46.9% | 10 |
| 2000s | 35.2% | 29.7% | 41.4% | 10 |
| 2010s | 34.4% | 33.1% | 36.2% | 10 |
| 2020s | 15.5% | 4.6% | 23.8% | 6 |
Countries ranked near East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
More economy & growth data for East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
- Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), gaps 176.21 billion BoP, current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant 2015 US$) 3.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross capital formation (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.3857 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Gross capital formation (current US$), per capita 4,008 current US$ per person (2024)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2015 US$), annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2015 US$), per unit of GDP 0.3602 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2015 US$), per capita 3,905 constant 2015 US$ per person (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$), annual growth rate 3.68 % change on previous year (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2184 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$), per capita 2,368 current US$ per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- Travel services in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) was 23.4% 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 (excluding high income)?
- The highest recorded value was 46.9% in 1990.
- What is the lowest travel services recorded in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- The lowest recorded value was 4.6% in 2021.
- How does East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) rank for travel services?
- East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) ranks 25th out of 45 groups with data for 2025.
- Is travel services rising or falling in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 31.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this East Asia & Pacific (excluding high 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 service exports, BoP). 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 services provided by residents to non-residents.