The world’s busiest tourist destinations are not always the countries with the highest number of visitors per resident. In smaller nations, annual arrivals can exceed the local population many times over.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 25 countries with the highest number of international tourist arrivals per resident, using the latest available data from UN Tourism via Our World in Data and population figures from the World Bank. Territories have been excluded.
Andorra: The Tourist Playground
Andorra stands in a league of its own. The country welcomes roughly 4.2 million international visitors annually despite having only about 82,000 residents, resulting in 51 tourist arrivals per resident—more than five times Monaco’s second-place ratio.
Sandwiched in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, Andorra receives many visitors from its two larger neighbors. In recent years, the country has also attracted growing numbers of visitors from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.
RankCountryInternational Tourist Arrivals per Resident 1🇦🇩 Andorra50.86 2🇲🇨 Monaco9.01 3🇲🇹 Malta6.26 4🇮🇸 Iceland5.58 5🇵🇼 Palau5.28 6🇦🇱 Albania4.83 7🇧🇸 Bahamas4.66 8🇧🇭 Bahrain4.17 9🇭🇷 Croatia3.97 10🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda3.52 11🇲🇪 Montenegro3.26 12🇸🇲 San Marino3.20 13🇲🇻 Maldives3.20 14🇨🇾 Cyprus2.97 15🇱🇮 Liechtenstein2.91 16🇦🇹 Austria2.90 17🇸🇨 Seychelles2.77 18🇵🇹 Portu
