World Bank · Private Sector

International tourism, expenditures for passenger transport items

International tourism expenditures for passenger transport items are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries for all services provided during international transportation by nonresident carriers. Also included are passenger services performed within an economy by nonresident carriers. Excluded are passenger services provided to nonresidents by resident carriers within the resident economies; these are included in travel items. In addition to the services covered by passenger fares--including fares that are a part of package tours but excluding cruise fares, which are included in travel--passenger services include such items as charges for excess baggage, vehicles, or other personal accompanying effects and expenditures for food, drink, or other items for which passengers make expenditures while on board carriers. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Coverage
185 of 238 countries
Latest data
2020
Series
185
Unit
current USD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
international-tourism-expenditures-for-passenger-transport-items
Interva ID
worldbank-international-tourism-expenditures-for-passenger-transport-items

Recency

aging

data to 2020; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

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Recency

50%

Latest observation is 2020; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 5 year(s) behind (aging).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

30 of 185 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 185 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 24 observations; the earliest begins in 1995.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.

By country

International tourism, expenditures for passenger transport items for each of the 185 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202019.00Mcurrent USD
Albania202042.00Mcurrent USD
Algeria202038.00Mcurrent USD
Angola202076.00Mcurrent USD
Antigua and Barbuda20208.00Mcurrent USD
Argentina2020400.00Mcurrent USD
Armenia202023.00Mcurrent USD
Aruba20204.00Mcurrent USD
Australia20201.17Bcurrent USD
Austria2020648.00Mcurrent USD

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UN Tourism

    Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). International tourism, expenditures for passenger transport items. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-international-tourism-expenditures-for-passenger-transport-items (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-international-tourism-expenditures-for-passenger-transport-items,
  title        = {International tourism, expenditures for passenger transport items},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-international-tourism-expenditures-for-passenger-transport-items}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-international-tourism-expenditures-for-passenger-transport-items; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-08}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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