What we count
The number of international tourist arrivals: visits involving at least one overnight stay outside the traveller's usual country of residence.
International tourist arrivals this year
International tourist arrivals worldwide so far this year, based on the latest UN Tourism total, and why arrivals are not unique travellers.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
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What lies behind this number
The number of international tourist arrivals: visits involving at least one overnight stay outside the traveller's usual country of residence.
How the source derives it
UN Tourism compiles the global figure from border, accommodation and other national tourism statistics.
What one number cannot show
An arrival is not a unique person. One traveller may generate several arrivals in a year and one trip may include several countries.
Source value
The calculation uses the latest published annual value reported by UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer 2026 for 2025.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the calendar year.
Annual value1,520,000,000arrivals
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer 2026
How the number is calculated
We distribute the latest published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value1,520,000,0002025 · arrivals
Average per day4,161,619even annual distribution
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer 2026 reports the annual value used by the calculation for 2025.
Elapsed share
We calculate the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the calendar year. The counter restarts at the beginning of a new year.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer 2026 and refers to 2025. It is the latest value published by this source. UN Tourism compiles the global figure from border, accommodation and other national tourism statistics.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer 2026
- Data period
- 2025
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation