# International tourist arrivals in South Africa

International tourist arrivals in South Africa was 10.5 million in 2025. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

- Indicator id: `international_tourists`
- Place id: `za`
- 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/south-africa
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=international_tourists&place=za

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 10,498,506 |
| 2024 | 8,919,000 |
| 2023 | 8,483,000 |
| 2022 | 5,698,000 |
| 2021 | 2,256,000 |
| 2020 | 2,802,000 |
| 2019 | 10,228,000 |
| 2018 | 10,472,000 |
| 2017 | 10,285,000 |
| 2016 | 10,044,000 |
| 2015 | 8,904,000 |
| 2014 | 9,549,000 |
| 2013 | 9,537,000 |
| 2012 | 9,188,000 |
| 2011 | 8,339,000 |
| 2010 | 8,074,000 |
| 2009 | 7,012,000 |