Origin nations ranked by international tourism expenditures, current US$, 2020.
Tourism spending abroad is ranked by origin nation for 2020. The comparison uses ten same-year World Bank rows, measured in current US$ spent by residents on international tourism. The United States ranked first at US$48.8 billion, followed by France at US$31.2 billion and South Korea at US$16.7 billion. The top three origin nations in the ten-row ranking summed to US$96.7 billion.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | US$48.8B | 2020 |
| 2 | France | US$31.2B | 2020 |
| 3 | South Korea | US$16.7B | 2020 |
| 4 | India | US$15.8B | 2020 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | US$15.1B | 2020 |
| 6 | Belgium | US$13.9B | 2020 |
| 7 | Italy | US$13.0B | 2020 |
| 8 | Qatar | US$11.5B | 2020 |
| 9 | Russia | US$10.8B | 2020 |
| 10 | Switzerland | US$10.4B | 2020 |
Source 1: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: World Bank
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Units: current US$
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Supports the WDI tourism-expenditure indicator and current-dollar unit.
Source 2: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: IndexMundi
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Units: current US$
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Provides an accessible ranked rendering of WDI expenditure rows, values and years for cross-checking.
International tourism expenditures cover resident spending abroad. Values are in current US dollars and preserve the source year frame.
Ranked same-year 2020 current-US$ expenditure rows. The top-three support metric sums the first three rows, and the multiple divides the United States by Switzerland.
Rows use the same World Bank tourism series, same year and same current-US$ unit. A secondary rendering was retained only as an accessibility cross-check for the WDI row order.
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