Overseas travelers to the United States declined by 2.5% in 2025
2025 preliminary data from the U.S. Trade Administration – International Visitors Arrival Program– points to a 2.5% decrease in overseas arrivals. The mediocre performance excludes international arrivals from Canada as well as from Mexico by land. The largest declines came from Africa at -11%, Oceania at -7.2% and the Caribbean at -4.9%.
Western European arrivals were also down by -3.2%. They were however counterbalanced by arrivals from Central/Eastern Europe, up 2.5%. Arrivals from Asia decline also by – 2.9% while South American visitors’ number remained basically flat.
Moving into positive fields were however arrivals from the Middle East up 2%, Mexico (only arrivals by air) up 2.3% and Central America by up 4.7%.
In total, the United States recorded last year 34.289 million overseas arrivals and another 3.621 million air arrivals from Mexico. This represented a total of 37.91 million international arrivals.
Anticipating the release of Canada’s arrivals by the end of this month, experts meanwhile estimate that U.S. total international arrivals should be done by 6% last year. The US Travel Association indeed points to a double-digit decline from Canadian travelers until November 2025 while Mexican land arrivals were up also by double-digits. Canada is the United States largest inbound market.
Among the top 20 overseas countries, ten recorded a growth -including the UK, America’s largest inbound market while Germany posted the sharpest contraction at -11.3%. Not surprisingly, the largest decline out of Europe came from Denmark, down by -23.7%. Swiss arrivals did not particularly perform well, sharply down at -10.7%.
Most surprisingly, the European countries with the strongest growth to the USA were… Russia and Ukraine. Both progressed exactly by the same percentage : 5.4%!
| Year-to-Date 2025 | ||
| Country of Residence | Number of Arrivals |
% Change from 2024 |
| United Kingdom | 4 058 124 | 0,5% |
| India | 2 060 726 | -5,9% |
| Japan | 1 967 298 | 6,7% |
| Brazil | 1 916 565 | 0,3% |
| Germany | 1 770 112 | -11,3% |
| South Korea | 1 647 142 | -3,1% |
| France | 1 589 676 | -6,8% |
| China, PRC | 1 562 458 | -3,9% |
| Italy | 1 182 877 | 5,3% |
| Colombia | 1 119 998 | 4,8% |
| Australia | 958 574 | -6,5% |
| Spain | 910 525 | 1,5% |
| Argentina | 789 942 | 14,9% |
| Netherlands | 572 389 | -7,6% |
| Dominican Republic | 554 871 | -0,3% |
| Ireland | 490 632 | -0,8% |
| Israel | 482 305 | 15,6% |
| Ecuador | 458 799 | -6,8% |
| Taiwan | 427 470 | 7,2% |
| Guatemala | 423 001 | 13,9% |
| Total Top 20 Overseas Countries | 24 943 484 | -0,9% |
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