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Outbound tourism spending as a share of imports

Compare outbound tourism spending as a share of imports across 137 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2020 official-source slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
4.0% of total imports
Median: 3.1% of total imports
Countries Covered
137
with available data
Highest
Qatar
19.5% of total imports
Lowest
Tajikistan
0.3% of total imports
Top 5 Countries
1Qatar19.5% of total imports
2Aruba18.9% of total imports
3Guinea17.0% of total imports
4Kuwait15.2% of total imports
5Albania14.2% of total imports
By Region
Key Findings
  • 137 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2020 observation.
  • Qatar has the highest published value (19.4769924881974 % of total imports).
  • Tajikistan has the lowest published value (0.345547982416277 % of total imports).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.3% of total imports)High (19.5% of total imports)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 4.0% of total imports)

About This Statistic

International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries, including payments to foreign carriers for international transport. These expenditures may include those by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include expenditures for passenger transport items. Their share in imports is calculated as a ratio to imports 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 nonresidents to residents of general merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, nonmonetary gold, and services.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries, including payments to foreign carriers for international transport. These expenditures may include those by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are important enough to justify separate classification. For some countries they do not include expenditures for passenger transport items. Their share in imports is calculated as a ratio to imports 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 nonresidents to residents of general merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, nonmonetary gold, and services.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Qatar19.5% of total imports
2Aruba18.9% of total imports
3Guinea17.0% of total imports
4Kuwait15.2% of total imports
5Albania14.2% of total imports
6Lesotho13.9% of total imports
7Comoros12.5% of total imports
8Bermuda12.3% of total imports
9Tonga12.1% of total imports
10Lebanon11.2% of total imports
11South Sudan11.0% of total imports
12Cameroon9.7% of total imports
13Nigeria9.2% of total imports
14Zambia8.1% of total imports
15Mongolia7.8% of total imports
16Iraq7.6% of total imports
17Ukraine7.5% of total imports
18Curaçao7.4% of total imports
19State of Palestine7.0% of total imports
20Armenia6.5% of total imports
21Cape Verde5.9% of total imports
22Macao5.7% of total imports
23Solomon Islands5.6% of total imports
24Argentina5.2% of total imports
25Moldova, Republic of5.1% of total imports
26Vanuatu5.0% of total imports
27Jamaica4.9% of total imports
28Philippines4.9% of total imports
29Bahamas4.9% of total imports
30Uzbekistan4.7% of total imports
31Saudi Arabia4.7% of total imports
32Antigua and Barbuda4.7% of total imports
33Timor-Leste4.6% of total imports
34Kyrgyzstan4.6% of total imports
35Angola4.6% of total imports
36Lao People's Democratic Republic4.5% of total imports
37Sri Lanka4.4% of total imports
38Maldives4.3% of total imports
39Mauritius4.3% of total imports
40Cyprus4.2% of total imports
41Bhutan4.2% of total imports
42Saint Kitts and Nevis4.2% of total imports
43Bolivia4.0% of total imports
44Costa Rica4.0% of total imports
45Portugal3.9% of total imports
46France3.9% of total imports
47Saint Lucia3.9% of total imports
48Fiji3.9% of total imports
49Serbia3.9% of total imports
50Ghana3.9% of total imports
51Oman3.7% of total imports
52Egypt3.6% of total imports
53Uruguay3.6% of total imports
54Rwanda3.5% of total imports
55Russian Federation3.5% of total imports
56Malawi3.5% of total imports
57Norway3.5% of total imports
58Suriname3.5% of total imports
59Saint Vincent and the Grenadines3.5% of total imports
60Panama3.4% of total imports
61Belgium3.4% of total imports
62Romania3.3% of total imports
63Bulgaria3.3% of total imports
64Georgia3.3% of total imports
65Morocco3.3% of total imports
66India3.2% of total imports
67Colombia3.1% of total imports
68South Korea3.1% of total imports
69Estonia3.1% of total imports
70Dominica3.0% of total imports
71Australia3.0% of total imports
72Seychelles2.9% of total imports
73Brazil2.9% of total imports
74Croatia2.8% of total imports
75Azerbaijan2.8% of total imports
76Malaysia2.8% of total imports
77Tunisia2.8% of total imports
78Sint Maarten (Dutch part)2.8% of total imports
79Zimbabwe2.7% of total imports
80Italy2.6% of total imports
81Austria2.6% of total imports
82Ecuador2.6% of total imports
83Uganda2.6% of total imports
84Madagascar2.6% of total imports
85Nepal2.5% of total imports
86Cote d'Ivoire2.5% of total imports
87Belize2.4% of total imports
88Pakistan2.4% of total imports
89Switzerland2.4% of total imports
90Honduras2.3% of total imports
91Slovenia2.3% of total imports
92Czech Republic2.3% of total imports
93Jordan2.2% of total imports
94Israel2.2% of total imports
95Peru2.2% of total imports
96Grenada2.2% of total imports
97Dominican Republic2.2% of total imports
98Eswatini2.2% of total imports
99Greece2.1% of total imports
100Paraguay2.1% of total imports
101Luxembourg2.0% of total imports
102South Africa2.0% of total imports
103Finland2.0% of total imports
104Poland1.9% of total imports
105Ethiopia1.9% of total imports
106Kazakhstan1.9% of total imports
107Guatemala1.8% of total imports
108The Republic of North Macedonia1.7% of total imports
109United States of America1.7% of total imports
110Nicaragua1.7% of total imports
111Bosnia and Herzegovina1.7% of total imports
112Vietnam1.6% of total imports
113Thailand1.6% of total imports
114Namibia1.6% of total imports
115El Salvador1.6% of total imports
116Slovakia1.4% of total imports
117Belarus1.4% of total imports
118Montenegro1.3% of total imports
119Indonesia1.2% of total imports
120Botswana1.2% of total imports
121Bangladesh1.2% of total imports
122Netherlands1.1% of total imports
123Hungary1.1% of total imports
124Mozambique1.1% of total imports
125Chile1.1% of total imports
126Mexico1.0% of total imports
127Mauritania1.0% of total imports
128Cambodia0.9% of total imports
129Japan0.8% of total imports
130Republic of The Gambia0.8% of total imports
131Türkiye0.7% of total imports
132Afghanistan0.7% of total imports
133Algeria0.6% of total imports
134Trinidad and Tobago0.6% of total imports
135Samoa0.5% of total imports
136Ireland0.5% of total imports
137Tajikistan0.3% of total imports
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Data Source

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

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