# EU countries by international tourist arrivals, 2021

All 14 values come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for 2021, so the places are comparable. 2 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `international_tourists`
- 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.
- 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
- 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/rankings/international-tourists/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 48,395,210 |
| 2 | Spain | 31,180,802 |
| 3 | Italy | 26,888,009 |
| 4 | Sweden | 10,259,767 |
| 5 | Poland | 9,722,000 |
| 6 | Portugal | 9,616,700 |
| 7 | Denmark | 7,556,005 |
| 8 | Hungary | 6,972,873 |
| 9 | Czechia | 3,767,826 |
| 10 | Slovakia | 1,725,216 |
| 11 | Malta | 968,136 |
| 12 | Lithuania | 947,600 |
| 13 | Estonia | 808,203 |
| 14 | Latvia | 477,648 |