The deficit in trade in services expanded due to the growth in thetravel deficit. In 2014 the deficit in trade in services amounted to USD192 billion, an increase of 54 percent year on year. Travel accounted fornearly 40 percent of trade in services and was the major source for theincrease in the deficit in trade in services (see Chart 2-6). Due to theincreased disposable income, both the population involved in outboundtravel and study and the average expenditure per person grew remarkably.In 2014 travel payments totaled USD 164.9 billion, an increase of 28percent, and travel receipts totaled USD 56.9 billion, an increase of 10percent. The travel deficit amounted to USD 107.9 billion, a growth rateof 40 percent year on year, accounting for 56 percent of the total deficit intrade in services
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