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**International Arrivals to U.S. - Historical Visitation 1997-2004**
INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS TO U.S. BY COUNTRY OF RESIDENCY
Country of Residence	2004	2003r	2002r	2001r	2000r	1999r	1998r	1997r
CANADA ¹	13,849,000	12,666,000	13,025,000	13,527,000	14,666,000	14,116,000	13,430,000	15,127,000
Canada (air only)	4,578,000	4,173,000	4,125,928	4,637,000	5,353,000	4,963,000	4,595,000	4,638,000
MEXICO ²	11,906,000	10,526,000	11,440,000	11,567,000	10,596,000	9,928,000	9,249,000	8,554,000
Mexico (air only)	1,439,971	1,359,418	1,436,727	1,512,980	1,736,600	1,489,170	1,420,832	1,303,786

OVERSEAS ³	20,322,257	18,026,213	19,116,707	21,832,868	25,974,701	24,466,187	23,697,587	24,194,476
WESTERN EUROPE	9,305,859	8,294,083	8,247,779	9,111,460	11,175,161	10,846,933	10,274,211	10,007,032
ANDORRA	866	800	777	954	1,235	1,378	1,185	1,186
AUSTRIA	112,950	99,924	97,930	123,295	175,533	194,230	185,799	187,942
BELGIUM	175,997	151,069	159,052	181,693	249,957	248,821	230,190	241,366
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA	4,656	4,154	4,068	4,755	5,430	4,019	2,021	1,488
CROATIA	11,176	9,685	9,676	10,073	11,244	10,701	10,258	9,541
DENMARK	150,839	125,435	118,716	126,345	149,211	146,479	138,689	144,605
FINLAND	78,612	67,761	64,860	72,864	93,649	90,622	85,247	82,190
FRANCE	775,274	688,887	734,260	875,854	1,087,087	1,059,014	1,013,222	978,327
GERMANY	1,319,904	1,180,212	1,189,856	1,313,756	1,786,045	1,984,627	1,901,938	1,994,296
GIBRALTAR	1,336	841	690	929	1,363	1,133	917	914
GREECE	43,208	40,993	44,839	49,371	61,361	57,879	58,975	62,162
ICELAND	26,777	21,389	18,692	20,868	27,682	27,491	27,126	24,306
IRELAND	345,119	254,320	259,687	276,806	285,697	246,394	232,391	217,278
ITALY	470,805	408,633	406,160	472,348	612,357	626,217	610,796	580,261
LIECHTENSTEIN	1,235	1,099	1,248	1,653	2,011	2,163	2,152	2,022
LUXEMBOURG	10,709	9,522	9,646	12,093	16,385	19,368	19,706	20,797
MACEDONIA	2,633	3,119	3,404	2,960	2,841	3,094	2,989	2,797
MALTA	5,157	4,080	4,482	6,679	8,437	8,792	7,766	7,498
MONACO	4,136	3,707	3,851	4,550	5,622	5,641	5,387	5,214
NETHERLANDS	424,872	373,690	384,367	411,742	553,297	526,819	490,198	473,420
NORWAY	130,400	113,233	112,593	123,268	147,540	145,601	142,583	140,446
PORTUGAL	60,930	54,572	56,012	67,222	86,333	79,413	67,132	62,877
SLOVENIA	11,045	9,420	7,300	10,980	14,886	15,379	13,306	2,171
SPAIN	333,432	284,031	269,520	291,052	361,177	362,848	326,339	328,024
SWEDEN	254,258	211,386	204,156	230,538	321,881	314,258	300,925	292,424
SWITZERLAND	243,186	230,042	253,940	310,826	395,031	405,626	410,900	410,209
UNITED KINGDOM	4,302,737	3,936,112	3,816,736	4,097,258	4,703,008	4,252,160	3,974,976	3,720,979
YUGOSLAVIA	3,241	5,670	10,972	10,206	8,039	5,839	10,149	11,570
EASTERN EUROPE	380,059	344,594	354,905	384,674	421,959	395,757	400,317	382,486
ALBANIA	4,160	4,101	4,405	4,453	5,737	2,732	2,017	1,786
ARMENIA	3,664	3,244	4,453	6,634	8,663	8,654	4,494	3,476
AZERBAIJAN	1,563	1,508	1,322	1,562	1,951	1,713	1,292	1,095
BULGARIA	14,639	13,868	13,858	11,996	11,418	11,690	11,118	8,754
BYELARUS	4,751	5,033	4,451	4,338	4,444	4,617	3,715	3,481
CZECH REPUBLIC	30,944	33,174	26,209	39,018	43,758	42,442	41,746	37,010
CZECHOSLOVAKIA	8,132	7,535	16,473	9,971	11,590	11,601	12,657	13,281
ESTONIA	5,919	5,569	5,630	5,894	6,745	6,497	5,230	4,904
GEORGIA	2,811	3,106	2,618	2,153	2,173	5,099	4,571	3,034
HUNGARY	32,694	31,984	35,001	45,311	59,174	53,030	48,602	50,080
LATVIA	5,787	5,280	5,870	6,218	7,161	5,957	5,411	5,137
LITHUANIA	6,997	7,539	9,482	11,484	9,122	5,615	4,969	6,052
MOLDOVA	1,661	1,427	1,177	1,159	1,625	1,209	940	758
POLAND	123,003	107,892	108,707	108,244	116,277	104,624	87,063	72,756
ROMANIA	30,270	25,058	26,440	28,261	27,418	25,529	24,636	20,630
RUSSIA	72,419	62,330	64,228	70,348	76,739	81,378	115,506	120,681
SLOVAKIA	11,641	10,677	12,235	12,498	13,235	12,093	12,592	13,877
UKRAINE	18,822	15,098	12,169	14,923	14,477	10,966	13,408	15,149
ASIA	5,801,834	5,003,261	5,689,319	6,315,500	7,554,444	6,935,210	6,724,061	7,755,838
BANGLADESH	8,384	8,434	9,585	12,218	12,724	11,380	10,445	9,464
BRUNEI	696	702	762	943	1,230	1,380	1,509	2,014
BURMA	945	829	1,461	1,301	1,357	1,208	323	770
CHINA ⁴	325,879	271,438	360,974	402,683	452,741	384,086	421,950	431,738
CHINA, PRC⁵	202,544	157,326	225,565	232,416	249,441	191,175	208,930	209,609
HONG KONG ⁵	123,335	114,112	135,409	170,267	203,300	192,911	213,020	222,129
INDIA	308,845	272,161	257,271	269,674	274,202	228,072	210,975	173,327
INDONESIA	45,905	40,744	45,811	59,672	71,390	62,634	45,791	86,959
JAPAN	3,747,620	3,169,682	3,627,264	4,082,661	5,061,377	4,826,077	4,885,369	5,367,578
KAMPUCHEA	3,480	3,115	2,575	3,304	2,319	636	554	2,011
KAZAKHSTAN	3,784	3,355	3,602	3,608	3,311	3,038	3,215	2,690
LAOS	1,192	955	1,190	1,608	1,045	636	657	642
MACAU	2,366	2,209	2,377	3,195	4,077	4,226	4,606	5,037
MALAYSIA	45,396	34,274	40,750	52,396	74,507	59,785	48,974	79,836
NEPAL	6,446	6,270	6,047	5,450	4,101	3,620	4,980	4,197
PAKISTAN	34,233	31,222	39,442	57,732	51,942	40,326	40,035	34,785
PHILIPPINES	143,962	134,338	173,203	180,549	168,053	144,678	117,116	132,285
SINGAPORE	106,527	87,525	97,259	99,010	136,439	118,476	102,240	127,109
REPUBLIC OF KOREA	626,595	617,573	638,697	617,892	661,844	498,643	364,061	746,550
SRI LANKA	7,512	7,622	6,613	8,730	9,898	8,392	7,044	6,105
TAIWAN	297,684	238,999	288,032	357,064	457,302	453,299	386,413	442,780
THAILAND	66,287	55,884	66,848	73,745	86,971	74,385	59,167	91,664
UZBEKISTAN	3,885	4,907	5,534	7,233	6,809	4,170	2,611	2,568
VIETNAM	12,401	9,463	12,360	12,928	9,061	4,417	4,460	4,217
MIDDLE EAST	502,170	447,112	482,534	644,156	702,105	625,356	587,210	551,571
ARABIAN PENINSULA	16,412	26	66	156	143	166	131	8
BAHRAIN	4,148	3,745	3,802	6,256	6,735	6,373	6,403	5,863
CYPRUS	9,087	9,485	9,378	10,893	12,152	11,485	11,069	10,608
EGYPT	20,772	20,225	24,315	41,438	44,612	42,777	38,832	35,275
IRAN	4,311	3,454	4,996	8,536	9,364	8,453	8,293	7,231
IRAQ	1,046	442	541	949	537	361	241	246
ISRAEL	275,373	249,034	263,097	305,431	325,199	283,306	269,752	260,052
JORDAN	12,265	11,798	12,339	18,490	17,327	14,809	13,939	12,471
KUWAIT	15,247	13,775	14,204	22,834	23,930	23,758	24,479	24,963
LEBANON	15,074	12,981	14,517	19,401	18,599	15,099	13,448	11,824
OMAN	3,221	2,911	3,468	5,051	5,396	5,116	4,356	3,834
QATAR	3,203	2,698	2,842	5,730	5,860	5,328	5,437	5,208
SAUDI ARABIA	18,573	18,727	25,588	69,755	75,320	72,891	68,288	67,962
SYRIA	3,901	3,843	5,194	8,237	8,470	7,640	7,199	6,607
TURKEY	76,404	75,227	78,662	82,222	106,427	88,301	78,219	68,254
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	22,571	18,353	19,080	37,518	40,039	37,635	35,506	29,265
YEMEN	562	388	445	1,259	1,995	1,858	1,618	1,900
AFRICA	240,752	236,266	241,223	287,066	295,387	274,033	258,412	234,182
ALGERIA	1,802	1,631	1,988	3,268	3,294	2,719	2,928	3,140
ANGOLA	3,060	2,781	2,912	3,207	3,146	2,891	2,398	1,980
BOTSWANA	2,273	1,873	2,116	2,490	2,391	2,160	2,081	1,652
BURKINA FASO	1,129	1,075	1,134	1,199	946	964	189	82
CAMEROON	4,366	5,214	5,003	4,279	3,124	3,137	1,968	1,586
CAPE VERDE	1,208	1,211	1,744	4,958	3,906	3,587	2,933	2,479
CONGO	1,223	1,111	1,432	2,273	1,604	1,355	1,388	1,442
ERITREA	1,039	1,034	1,025	599	407	826	534	805
ETHIOPIA	4,975	5,582	4,749	5,382	5,177	5,282	4,432	3,567
GABON	1,062	980	1,031	1,197	1,404	1,509	1,463	1,274
GAMBIA	2,055	2,910	3,382	2,336	2,966	1,832	1,450	1,234
GHANA	18,679	20,760	18,957	17,184	16,073	14,118	10,616	9,161
GUINEA	3,528	3,958	3,589	4,334	4,184	3,474	4,106	3,504
IVORY COAST	1,638	1,649	2,514	5,127	5,226	6,284	6,194	5,855
KENYA	14,979	13,913	17,275	20,651	14,229	13,720	13,340	11,977
LIBERIA	1,038	848	1,400	2,367	3,823	2,376	2,334	1,604
MALAWI	1,092	1,098	1,212	1,332	1,365	1,155	1,110	1,006
MALI	1,480	2,705	2,743	3,845	4,015	2,108	2,020	1,738
MAURITIUS	836	701	846	1,577	1,899	1,731	1,787	1,651
MOROCCO	12,538	11,857	12,464	17,106	19,079	19,487	17,669	14,630
NAMIBIA	1,033	912	883	1,021	1,144	1,081	886	737
NIGER	3,614	1,720	4,930	2,118	1,433	1,054	746	319
NIGERIA	45,606	46,938	40,128	37,406	27,124	29,734	28,010	24,414
SENEGAL	5,689	6,830	7,762	10,395	11,185	7,874	6,749	5,831
SIERRA LEONE	919	882	765	697	706	464	540	1,232
SOUTH AFRICA	78,433	72,029	73,910	94,882	116,113	107,258	110,049	103,567
SUDAN	628	670	852	1,659	1,479	1,014	837	1,018
TANZANIA	3,357	3,506	3,530	4,972	4,286	4,275	2,947	3,124
TOGO	1,549	1,695	1,801	2,250	1,590	1,056	1,010	918
TUNISIA	2,920	2,020	1,989	5,257	9,489	8,540	7,421	6,817
UGANDA	3,622	3,215	3,326	3,632	3,885	3,976	2,952	2,278
ZAIRE	70	76	81	119	111	101	247	1,083
ZAMBIA	2,882	2,782	3,165	4,413	3,337	3,092	2,558	2,295
ZIMBABWE	5,138	5,223	5,457	6,832	8,080	7,420	6,650	5,556
OCEANIA	659,753	524,599	529,091	586,309	731,263	667,233	638,615	680,095
AUSTRALIA	519,955	405,698	407,130	425,934	539,559	483,157	460,705	500,615
FIJI	3,685	3,408	4,112	5,789	6,817	7,370	6,402	5,529
FRENCH POLYNESIA	2,831	2,434	2,176	2,293	3,373	3,761	3,748	3,016
NEW CALEDONIA	1,116	961	1,025	1,476	1,759	3,609	3,666	1,589
NEW ZEALAND	127,394	107,214	109,580	144,216	172,012	160,458	157,338	161,476
PAPUA NEW GUINEA	537	586	668	934	1,336	1,667	1,630	1,666
TONGA	1,915	1,713	2,112	2,746	2,719	2,897	2,128	2,283
WESTERN SAMOA	1,015	1,208	1,006	1,107	1,206	923	727	1,224
SOUTH AMERICA	1,645,342	1,522,191	1,815,230	2,531,089	2,941,471	2,733,227	2,957,318	2,830,681
ARGENTINA	167,726	150,719	164,658	434,011	533,936	501,660	523,909	503,393
BOLIVIA	22,843	22,307	25,011	34,943	49,135	37,718	32,274	28,376
BRAZIL	384,734	348,945	405,094	551,406	737,245	665,013	909,477	940,698
CHILE	101,171	95,389	115,359	150,350	192,361	181,234	179,133	179,075
COLOMBIA	295,371	280,259	321,439	371,747	417,065	415,724	367,968	317,736
ECUADOR	133,046	119,737	139,094	147,527	129,938	118,759	145,477	126,077
GUYANA	14,777	15,991	19,358	16,955	17,435	18,465	17,902	16,775
PARAGUAY	9,716	9,754	12,069	16,405	18,714	18,870	19,065	20,198
PERU	151,409	154,324	164,482	186,008	192,062	159,276	155,464	145,019
SURINAME	5,812	5,346	5,237	5,832	7,039	6,528	6,557	6,508
URUGUAY	28,197	34,801	47,316	60,346	69,607	57,406	59,041	58,657
VENEZUELA	330,285	284,423	395,913	555,292	576,663	552,225	540,685	487,981
CENTRAL AMERICA	691,580	655,841	704,050	770,803	821,614	730,813	696,731	563,883
BELIZE	21,430	22,074	22,327	28,682	30,352	27,005	24,058	23,106
COSTA RICA	127,112	112,880	124,993	143,434	176,056	160,781	156,405	131,240
EL SALVADOR	181,209	177,240	197,159	207,890	184,574	152,787	135,808	93,087
GUATEMALA	161,983	151,891	162,367	171,955	185,677	163,095	163,468	134,545
HONDURAS	85,506	82,099	85,322	87,645	90,714	81,998	78,896	61,866
NICARAGUA	38,308	37,244	36,387	43,483	46,892	45,649	43,458	38,071
PANAMA	76,032	72,413	75,495	87,714	107,349	99,498	94,638	81,968
CARIBBEAN	1,094,908	998,266	1,052,576	1,201,811	1,331,297	1,257,625	1,160,712	1,188,708
ANGUILLA	4,104	3,451	3,050	4,121	5,177	5,185	4,542	4,167
ANTIGUA-BARBUDA	18,585	16,479	16,317	20,207	24,918	24,162	24,033	23,610
BAHAMAS	265,681	253,229	262,469	293,022	293,911	282,286	251,929	319,240
BARBADOS	49,198	41,558	41,934	46,494	57,071	60,002	59,338	58,829
BERMUDA	15,996	13,382	6,227	7,107	7,474	7,366	7,847	7,307
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS	16,902	14,748	14,497	23,745	29,708	25,100	24,949	23,045
CAYMAN ISLANDS	49,191	37,160	35,069	46,252	52,922	52,276	50,310	46,427
CUBA	22,762	18,543	26,880	31,425	48,614	5,613	6,717	4,788
DOMINICA	8,831	6,792	17,271	14,221	16,174	16,120	15,054	14,826
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	180,048	153,019	153,586	171,568	197,298	200,817	195,287	190,522
GRENADA	8,691	7,509	7,161	8,656	10,412	10,192	8,970	7,655
GUADELOUPE	6,623	6,019	6,290	7,448	10,253	11,177	11,842	11,077
HAITI	60,521	59,756	59,444	65,169	72,190	72,726	61,094	52,190
JAMAICA	163,059	159,484	183,903	229,003	242,903	233,547	217,730	213,910
MARTINIQUE	5,531	5,902	6,021	7,500	9,912	12,594	14,843	11,527
MONTSERRAT	810	696	650	727	1,027	998	1,078	1,462
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES ⁶	56,179	54,170	58,043	52,378	60,042	67,282	56,104	58,980
ST. KITTS-NEVIS	9,863	7,897	7,917	10,183	12,084	11,596	10,147	10,097
ST. LUCIA	13,846	12,007	12,530	14,941	18,100	17,693	15,366	14,500
ST. VINCENT-GRENADINES	5,724	4,928	4,992	5,931	7,291	6,900	5,606	5,136
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	121,158	111,820	118,336	127,102	137,689	117,396	103,807	96,458
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS	11,605	9,717	9,989	14,611	16,127	16,597	14,119	12,955


INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS TO U.S. BY REGION OF RESIDENCY
Region	2004	2003r	2002r	2001r	2000r	1999r	1998r	1997r
North America ⁷	25,755,000	23,192,000	24,465,000	25,094,000	25,262,000	24,044,000	22,679,000	23,681,000
Canada ¹	13,849,000	12,666,000	13,025,000	13,527,000	14,666,000	14,116,000	13,430,000	15,127,000
Mexico⁽²⁾	11,906,000	10,526,000	11,440,000	11,567,000	10,596,000	9,928,000	9,249,000	8,554,000

Overseas ³	20,322,257	18,026,213	19,116,707	21,832,868	25,974,701	24,466,187	23,697,587	24,194,476
Europe	9,685,918	8,638,677	8,602,684	9,496,134	11,597,120	11,242,690	10,674,528	10,389,518
Western Europe	9,305,859	8,294,083	8,247,779	9,111,460	11,175,161	10,846,933	10,274,211	10,007,032
Eastern Europe	380,059	344,594	354,905	384,674	421,959	395,757	400,317	382,486
Asia	5,801,834	5,003,261	5,689,319	6,315,500	7,554,444	6,935,210	6,724,061	7,755,838
South America	1,645,342	1,522,191	1,815,230	2,531,089	2,941,471	2,733,227	2,957,318	2,830,681
Caribbean	1,094,908	998,266	1,052,576	1,201,811	1,331,297	1,257,625	1,160,712	1,188,708
Central America	691,580	655,841	704,050	770,803	821,614	730,813	696,731	563,883
Oceania	659,753	524,599	529,091	586,309	731,263	667,233	638,615	680,095
Middle East	502,170	447,112	482,534	644,156	702,105	625,356	587,210	551,571
Africa	240,752	236,266	241,223	287,066	295,387	274,033	258,412	234,182
GRAND TOTAL	46,077,257	41,218,213	43,581,707	46,926,868	51,236,701	48,510,187	46,376,587	47,875,476
Percent Change	11.8%	-5.4%	-7.1%	-8.4%	5.6%	4.6%	-3.1%	2.7%

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, ITA, Office of Travel & Tourism Industries; Statistics Canada; & Banco de Mexico/Secretaria de Turismo (Mexico)

Notes: Only countries with at least 1,000 arrivals, in any one year between 1997 to 2004 are shown on this chart.

1 The Canadian arrival figures maybe revised monthly. Arrival estimates are based on survey research and

therefore are rounded to the nearest thousand.

2 The USA obtained Mexican revised arrival figures in 2004 for 1993 through 2003. Data are subject to further

revisions if obtained from Banco de Mexico

3 Overseas includes arrivals from all countries except Canada and Mexico.

4 Arrivals are a combined total for People's Republic of China and Hong Kong.

5 Arrivals from People's Republic of China or Hong Kong only.

6 Aruba arrival figures merged with the Netherlands Antilles from 1997-2004

7 North America includes Canada and Mexico only.

n/a Information not available.

Released: May 2005