# International tourist arrivals in Costa Rica

International tourist arrivals in Costa Rica was 2.92 million in 2024. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

- Indicator id: `international_tourists`
- Place id: `cr`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Non-resident visitors who stay at least one night (tourists) arriving in the country. Spain and its regions: INE FRONTUR, by main destination region. Other countries, yearly: OECD inbound tourism table, from frontier statistics or visitor surveys.
- Note: Same-day visitors are not included; overnight and same-day visitors together are international_visitor_arrivals. The OECD series for Spain repeats FRONTUR. Countries count arrivals in different ways, so gaps between countries partly reflect method.
- Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Inbound tourism: arrivals of non-resident overnight visitors (tourists), tourism demand surveys and frontier statistics (DSD_TOURISM_INTER@DF_INBOUND) (https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_TOURISM_INTER%40DF_INBOUND&df[ag]=OECD.CFE.TOU)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/oecd
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- License: OECD data reuse terms: commercial reuse with attribution; dataset-specific restrictions apply
- Citation: OECD. OECD Inbound tourism: arrivals of non-resident overnight visitors (tourists), tourism demand surveys and frontier statistics (DSD_TOURISM_INTER@DF_INBOUND). https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_TOURISM_INTER%40DF_INBOUND&df[ag]=OECD.CFE.TOU. Accessed 2026-10-12. Data reuse terms and downstream attribution: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/international-tourists/costa-rica
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=international_tourists&place=cr

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 2,919,483 |
| 2023 | 2,751,134 |
| 2022 | 2,349,537 |
| 2021 | 1,347,055 |
| 2020 | 1,011,912 |
| 2019 | 3,139,008 |
| 2018 | 3,016,667 |
| 2017 | 2,959,869 |
| 2016 | 2,925,128 |
| 2015 | 2,660,257 |
| 2014 | 2,526,817 |
| 2013 | 2,427,941 |
| 2012 | 2,343,213 |
| 2011 | 2,192,059 |
| 2010 | 2,099,829 |
| 2009 | 1,922,579 |
| 2008 | 2,089,174 |