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International tourism, receipts (% of total exports)

Compare international tourism, receipts (% of total exports) across 125 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2020.

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Key Insights

Global Average
10.5%
Median: 3.5%
Countries Covered
125
with available data
Highest
Maldives
78.9%
Lowest
Guinea
0.0%
Top 5 Countries
1Maldives78.9%
2Aruba74.6%
3Antigua and Barbuda70.0%
4Macao60.6%
5Bahamas59.6%
By Region
Other16.1%(62 countries)
Oceania8.7%(1 countries)
Africa7.3%(8 countries)
Asia5.5%(20 countries)
Europe4.5%(24 countries)
Key Findings
  • 125 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
  • Maldives has the highest published value (78.869 %).
  • Guinea has the lowest published value (0.0143396 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (78.9%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 10.5%)

Other (62)
Oceania (1)
Africa (8)
Asia (20)
Europe (24)
South America (7)
North America (3)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Their share in exports is calculated as a ratio to exports of goods and services, which comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents of general merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, nonmonetary gold, and services.

Values use one fixed 2020 reference year from World Development Indicators series ST.INT.RCPT.XP.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

International tourism receipts are expenditures by international inbound visitors, including payments to national carriers for international transport. These receipts include any other prepayment made for goods or services received in the destination country. They also may include receipts from same-day visitors, except when these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include receipts for passenger transport items. Their share in exports is calculated as a ratio to exports of goods and services, which comprise all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents of general merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, nonmonetary gold, and services.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Maldives78.9%
2Aruba74.6%
3Antigua and Barbuda70.0%
4Macao60.6%
5Bahamas59.6%
6Vanuatu50.4%
7Tonga50.3%
8Sint Maarten (Dutch part)46.1%
9Saint Vincent and the Grenadines46.0%
10Cape Verde39.9%
11Albania35.9%
12Republic of The Gambia30.2%
13Ethiopia29.6%
14Curaçao27.8%
15Lebanon27.0%
16Comoros26.8%
17Croatia23.4%
18Qatar20.2%
19Samoa19.8%
20Seychelles18.4%
21Fiji17.8%
22Jordan16.7%
23Montenegro14.4%
24Nepal13.4%
25Mauritius12.9%
26El Salvador12.3%
27Portugal12.2%
28Egypt12.2%
29Morocco12.0%
30Rwanda11.0%
31Moldova, Republic of11.0%
32Bhutan10.7%
33Greece10.5%
34Georgia9.9%
35Panama9.3%
36Uganda9.2%
37Bermuda9.1%
38Tunisia9.0%
39Australia8.7%
40Sri Lanka8.2%
41Kyrgyzstan8.0%
42Armenia8.0%
43Madagascar7.8%
44Uruguay7.7%
45Costa Rica7.4%
46Tajikistan7.3%
47Cameroon7.1%
48Austria6.9%
49Türkiye6.6%
50Bosnia and Herzegovina6.2%
51Thailand6.0%
52Serbia5.6%
53Cambodia5.4%
54Colombia5.1%
55Afghanistan5.1%
56France4.8%
57Botswana4.6%
58Bulgaria4.4%
59Namibia4.0%
60Estonia4.0%
61United States of America3.9%
62Italy3.7%
63The Republic of North Macedonia3.5%
64Lao People's Democratic Republic3.5%
65Philippines3.5%
66Hungary3.4%
67Slovenia3.4%
68Bolivia3.3%
69Cyprus3.3%
70Saudi Arabia3.2%
71Ecuador3.1%
72Honduras3.0%
73Luxembourg3.0%
74South Africa2.9%
75Bahrain2.8%
76Pakistan2.8%
77India2.8%
78Uzbekistan2.7%
79Malawi2.7%
80Argentina2.6%
81Poland2.6%
82Mexico2.6%
83Mozambique2.5%
84Israel2.4%
85Guatemala2.3%
86Trinidad and Tobago2.3%
87Czech Republic2.3%
88Azerbaijan2.2%
89Peru2.2%
90Switzerland2.1%
91Indonesia2.0%
92South Korea1.9%
93Iraq1.9%
94Oman1.9%
95Norway1.9%
96Finland1.8%
97Belgium1.8%
98Romania1.7%
99Solomon Islands1.6%
100Malaysia1.6%
101Cote d'Ivoire1.5%
102Belarus1.5%
103Netherlands1.4%
104Japan1.4%
105Slovakia1.4%
106Brazil1.3%
107Russian Federation1.3%
108Chile1.3%
109Zimbabwe1.3%
110Kazakhstan1.2%
111Ukraine1.1%
112Vietnam1.1%
113Kuwait1.1%
114Ghana0.9%
115Paraguay0.8%
116Nigeria0.8%
117Suriname0.8%
118Ireland0.7%
119Mongolia0.6%
120Bangladesh0.6%
121Eswatini0.4%
122Mauritania0.2%
123Algeria0.2%
124Angola0.1%
125Guinea0.0%
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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2020).

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