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Tourist departures, 2020:

The average for 2020 based on 31 countries was 5489 thousand tourists. The highest value was in the United Kingdom: 23827 thousand tourists and the lowest value was in Moldova: 75 thousand tourists. The indicator is available from 1995 to 2020. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: thousand tourists; Source: World Tourism Organization
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Countries Tourist departures, 2020 Global rank Available data
UK 23827 1 1995 - 2020
Italy 21448 2 1997 - 2020
France 21287 3 2006 - 2020
Hungary 12727 4 1995 - 2020
Russia 12361 5 1995 - 2020
Ukraine 11251 6 2007 - 2020
Romania 9510 7 1995 - 2020
Spain 6236 8 2007 - 2020
Sweden 6081 9 2017 - 2020
Belgium 5850 10 1996 - 2020
Denmark 4230 11 1996 - 2020
Bulgaria 3973 12 1995 - 2020
Austria 3964 13 2000 - 2020
Albania 2907 14 2001 - 2020
Belarus 2810 15 2000 - 2020
Finland 2690 16 2005 - 2020
Czechia 2399 17 2003 - 2020
Ireland 2326 18 1995 - 2020
Greece 2324 19 2008 - 2020
Turkey 2243 20 1995 - 2020
Slovenia 1892 21 2005 - 2020
Norway 1690 22 1995 - 2020
Lithuania 1643 23 2006 - 2020
Luxembourg 1460 24 1997 - 2020
Latvia 690 25 1995 - 2020
Portugal 680 26 2012 - 2020
Croatia 678 27 2008 - 2020
Estonia 558 28 1995 - 2020
Malta 218 29 2008 - 2020
Iceland 130 30 1995 - 2020
Moldova 75 31 2009 - 2020



Definition: International outbound tourists are the number of departures that people make from their country of usual residence to any other country for any purpose other than a remunerated activity in the country visited. The data on outbound tourists refer to the number of departures, not to the number of people traveling. Thus a person who makes several trips from a country during a given period is counted each time as a new departure.

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