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Global Tourism, Travel & Transport Statistics by Country (1960–2023)

About this data

Comprehensive panel dataset covering international tourism, air transport, surface transport, trade in services, and international migration for 218 countries from 1960 to 2023. Contains 13,952 observations across 31 variables including tourism arrivals/departures, receipts/expenditures, air passenger volumes, railway traffic, container port throughput, and derived indicators like tourism intensity per capita and tourism balance. **Sources:** World Bank Open Data API — 25 indicator series compiled from World Development Indicators (WDI), International Tourism statistics (UNWTO via World Bank), ICAO air transport data, and UN Population Division migration estimates. **Key Features:** - 218 countries and territories - 64-year time span (1960–2023) - 8 core tourism indicators (arrivals, departures, receipts, expenditures) - 3 air transport indicators (passengers, departures, freight) - 2 surface transport indicators (railways passengers, freight) - 5 trade & services indicators - 3 migration indicators - 4 derived analytical indicators (tourism intensity, receipts % GDP, tourism balance, air passengers per capita) - GDP, GDP per capita, and population for contextual analysis **Format:** Wide panel — one row per country-year, all indicators as columns. Missing values left blank (not all indicators available for all country-years). **Use Cases:** Tourism economics research, travel industry analysis, transport infrastructure comparisons, international mobility trends, COVID-19 impact studies on global tourism, development economics.

Schema

Name	Type	Description
country_code	string
country_name	string
year	string
international_tourism_arrivals	string
international_tourism_departures	string
tourism_receipts_usd	string
tourism_expenditures_usd	string
tourism_receipts_pct_exports	string
tourism_expenditures_pct_imports	string
tourism_receipts_travel_items_usd	string
tourism_expenditures_travel_items_usd	string
air_transport_passengers	string
air_transport_departures	string
air_transport_freight_million_ton_km	string
exports_goods_services_usd	string
imports_goods_services_usd	string
travel_services_pct_exports	string
travel_services_pct_imports	string
international_migrant_stock	string
international_migrant_stock_pct_pop	string
net_migration	string
railways_passengers_km	string
railways_freight_million_ton_km	string
container_port_traffic_teu	string
gdp_current_usd	string
gdp_per_capita_usd	string
population	string
tourism_intensity_per_1000	string
tourism_receipts_pct_gdp	string
tourism_balance_usd	string
air_passengers_per_capita	string

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