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The world's most visited countries, 1995 to 2024

Tourist arrivals a year in today's top 8 countries

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Guess the number: tourist arrivals in France, 2024

250 M
0 M500 M
0:00 / 0:37

Source: UN Tourism (Tourism Highlights 2025; earlier years via Our World in Data) · Jan 2026

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How to read this chart: Bar length is the value at that moment and the order re-sorts as the values change. Watch the overtakes — and watch the axis, which usually rescales as it goes. More on bar race charts.

The takeaway

Spain cut the gap to France from 27M to 8M, while Turkey's arrivals grew more than eightfold.

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  1. 102 million visitors a year. France has been the world's top destination for 30 years.

  2. France leads from the very first year. In 2000, Turkey trailed them all. By 2019, Spain was second. In 2020, France lost more than half its visitors. By 2024, Turkey was fourth, Spain was right behind, and France still led with — 102 million.

  3. Will Spain overtake France this decade? Drop your answer below. Like, share and subscribe, and find more at numberreels.com.

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