Key tourism statistics: Macroeconomic Indicators

Detailed information on the metadata, country notes and methodologies used in the compilation of these data can be found in the Methodological Notes

Methodological Notes

Publications on tourism statistics

UN Tourism's flagship annual publications in the field of tourism statistics are the Compendium of Tourism Statistics and the Yearbook of Tourism Statistics.

Tourism Direct GDP, as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate

Tourism Direct GDP refers to the economic contribution of tourism.

_*_Source_{: Data compiled from countries by UN Tourism through annual statistical questionnaires.}
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Based on additional data collected from several international sources, a number of macroeconomic indicators are compiled:

Macroeconomic Indicator	Data Download
Gross travel propensity	Request Data
Inbound tourists over population	Request Data
Outbound tourism expenditure over GDP	Request Data
Tourism balance (inbound minus outbound tourism expenditure) over GDP	Request Data
Tourism openness (inbound plus outbound tourism expenditure) over GDP	Request Data
Tourism coverage (inbound over outbound tourism expenditure)	Request Data
Inbound tourism expenditure over exports of goods	Request Data
Inbound tourism expenditure over exports of services	Request Data
Inbound tourism expenditure over exports of goods and services	Request Data
Inbound tourism expenditure over current account credits	Request Data
Outbound tourism expenditure over imports of goods	Request Data
Outbound tourism expenditure over imports of services	Request Data
Outbound tourism expenditure over imports of goods and services	Request Data
Outbound tourism expenditure over current account debits	Request Data
Outbound tourism expenditure over GDP	Request Data

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UN standards for Measuring Tourism

System of Tourism Statistics is embedded in the National Statistical System, providing of reliable, consistent and appropriate statistical information on the socio-economic aspects related to tourism, integrated within the economic and social statistics related to other fields

Capacity Building & Events

UN Tourism’s Statistics, Standards and Data Department has coordinated important developments relating to the conceptualization of tourism and its measurement, progressively building consensus amongst the international statistical community

UN Tourism Committee on Statistics

The United Nations recognizes UN Tourism as the appropriate organization to collect, to analyze, to publish, to standardize and to improve the statistics of tourism, and to promote the integration of these statistics within the sphere of the United Nations system

Tourism GDP

Tourism Direct GDP, as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate

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