Sri Lanka - Travel services imports

Travel services (% of commercial service imports)

The value for Travel services (% of commercial service imports) in Sri Lanka was 20.91 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.79 in 2016 and a minimum value of 1.63 in 1975.

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
1975 1.63
1976 2.88
1977 3.47
1978 16.11
1979 12.92
1980 9.72
1981 10.43
1982 10.73
1983 9.80
1984 12.67
1985 10.53
1986 11.45
1987 12.19
1988 12.89
1989 12.62
1990 11.90
1991 13.22
1992 13.85
1993 14.24
1994 16.63
1995 15.95
1996 14.98
1997 14.13
1998 15.21
1999 15.70
2000 15.10
2001 14.44
2002 16.92
2003 16.94
2004 15.81
2005 15.33
2006 15.82
2007 15.30
2008 14.40
2009 16.52
2010 14.72
2011 12.62
2012 28.56
2013 34.62
2014 34.61
2015 35.56
2016 36.79
2017 36.73
2018 36.62
2019 36.02
2020 20.91

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports