I definitively did not expect Austria that high in the list.
Altruistic-Resort-56 on
I wouldn’t have guessed so many central states to be tourist spots but then I know nothing about them. More surprised Belgium isn’t one
samyall on
I bet Estonia is red entirely due to the boats from Helsinki.
Also how is this measured in the Schengen where border crossings are not tracked?
wearing_a_yes_hat on
Russia is not European in any way. It’s an Asian country with Asians living in it 🤷🏻♂️
adamosity1 on
If you break down the UK this is true for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Alasdair91 on
In Scotland we get something like 17m visitors to 5.5m inhabitants. It can be too much during summer.
nomdeplumbr on
Interesting map! Not to be pedantic but it’s ‘populace’ not ‘populous’
cryptotope on
The linked source seems *very* unreliable.
The data seems to be spotty and dated; the text mentions some figures from 2006, 2010, 2014, or 2016, and the blogicle was apparently posted in 2019. There’s no links to underlying sources that the article used.
Meanwhile, some of the figures in the text seem to be inconsistent with *themselves*. For example, the article text mentions a population of Turks and Caicos of 31,438, and a total of 617,863 tourists just from cruise ships–seemingly a tourist-to-population ration of around 20. But the same paragraph – and the data table – report a ratio of 10.42.
Bahrain has a similar discrepancy in the other direction: 1.378 million population, 4 million tourists, but a tourist-to-resident ratio reported at 7.6 rather than 3.
Schnaelle on
No one wants to come to Germany 💀
ChocolateBunny on
“Annually” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. tourists come and go and don’t stay very long, the local population stays there forever. so this map looks a lot scarier than it actually is.
![Does the Number of Annual Foreign Tourists Outnumber the Local Population in Each European Country [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vf57qkx900cg1-1536x1025.png "Does the Number of Annual Foreign Tourists Outnumber the Local Population in Each European Country [OC]")
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I definitively did not expect Austria that high in the list.
I wouldn’t have guessed so many central states to be tourist spots but then I know nothing about them. More surprised Belgium isn’t one
I bet Estonia is red entirely due to the boats from Helsinki.
Also how is this measured in the Schengen where border crossings are not tracked?
Russia is not European in any way. It’s an Asian country with Asians living in it 🤷🏻♂️
If you break down the UK this is true for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
In Scotland we get something like 17m visitors to 5.5m inhabitants. It can be too much during summer.
Interesting map! Not to be pedantic but it’s ‘populace’ not ‘populous’
The linked source seems *very* unreliable.
The data seems to be spotty and dated; the text mentions some figures from 2006, 2010, 2014, or 2016, and the blogicle was apparently posted in 2019. There’s no links to underlying sources that the article used.
Meanwhile, some of the figures in the text seem to be inconsistent with *themselves*. For example, the article text mentions a population of Turks and Caicos of 31,438, and a total of 617,863 tourists just from cruise ships–seemingly a tourist-to-population ration of around 20. But the same paragraph – and the data table – report a ratio of 10.42.
Bahrain has a similar discrepancy in the other direction: 1.378 million population, 4 million tourists, but a tourist-to-resident ratio reported at 7.6 rather than 3.
No one wants to come to Germany 💀
“Annually” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. tourists come and go and don’t stay very long, the local population stays there forever. so this map looks a lot scarier than it actually is.