93.8m
Spain, international tourist arrivals
Which country had the most international arrivals in 2024?
Spain recorded 93.8 million international arrivals in 2024, up 10.09%. It is the highest 2024 figure in this dataset, but not the world's highest: UN Tourism ranks France first at roughly 102 million, and France has no 2024 entry in the series used here.
93.8m
Spain, international tourist arrivals
2024 · Spain
+10.09%
Year on year
2024
A worked example of why a denominator needs reading before it is quoted. Ranked on the Our World in Data compilation alone, Spain tops 2024 — only because France's 2024 value is missing from it, the latest French entry being 2021. The published UN Tourism ranking puts France first, Spain second. We show Spain's figure because we can trace it; we show the ranking caveat because quoting it without one would be wrong.
Source
- Reference period
- Geography
- Spain
- Evidence type
- Official statistic
- Sample
- UN Tourism international tourist arrivals, via Our World in Data. France has no 2024 entry in this series
- Year on year
- +10.09%
- Last checked
Method
UN Tourism international tourist arrivals, accessed via Our World in Data, 2024. Arrivals count trips, not people: one traveller making three trips counts three times. France is absent from the 2024 cut of this dataset, so any 'most-visited' ranking derived from it alone is incomplete.
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