Statistics ProjectWendy Kim & Tina Shin

What is the most visited country in the world?

Acquiring Data

Based on the data collected by UNWTO (2007)

United Nations World Tourism Organization – an international, reliable organization.

UNWTO Tourism Highlights, Edition 2009

International Tourist Arrivals (1000)

For analysis, all numbers are rounded up to the whole number.

International Tourist Arrivals (2007)

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International Tourist Arrivals

EuropeAsia and the Pacific AmericasAfricaMiddle East

Europe

Europe 487,851Austria 20,773Belgium 7,045Bulgaria 5,151Croatia 9,307Czech Rep 6,680France 81,940Germany 24,420Greece 17,518Hungary 8,638Ireland 8,332Italy 43,654Kazakhstan 3,876Netherlands 11,008Poland 14,975Portugal 12,321Russian Federation 20,605Spain 58,666Sweden 5,224Switzerland 8,448Turkey 22,248Ukraine 23,122United Kingdom 30,871

Mean : 20,219

Mode : none

Median : 13,648

Standard deviation : 18,795

Range : 78,064

Asia and the Pacific

Mean : 7,593

Mode : none

Median : 3,973

Standard deviation : 11,263

Range : 54,226

Asia and the Pacific 181,984Australia 5,644Cambodia 1,873China 54,720Fiji 540Guam 1,225Hong Kong (China) 17,154India 5,082Indonesia 5,506Iran 2,172Japan 8,347Korea. Republic of 6,448Lao P.D.R. 1,142Macao (China) 12,942Malaysia 20,973Maldives 676New Zealand 2,466Nepal 527Pakistan 840Philippines 3,092Singapore 7,957Sri Lanka 494Taiwan (pr. of China) 3,716Thailand 14,464Vietnam 4,229

Americas

Americas 142,866Argentina 4,562Aruba 772Bahamas 1,528Barbados 575Bolivia 573Brazil 5,026Canada 17,931Chile 2,507Colombia 1,195Costa Rica 1,980Cuba 2,119Dominican Rep. 3,980Ecuador 937El Salvador 1,339Guatemala 1,448Honduras 831Jamaica 1,701Mexico 21,370Nicaragua 800Panama 1,103Peru 1,916Puerto Rico 3,687United States 55,986Uruguay 1,752Venezuela 771

Mean : 5,456

Mode : none

Median : 1,701

Standard deviation : 11,457

Range : 55,413

Africa

Africa 45,016Algeria 1,743Angola 195Botswana 1,990Cape Verde 267Ethiopia 312Gambia 143Ghana 587Kenya ..Lesotho 292Madagascar 344Malawi 735Mali 164Mauritius 907Morocco 7,408Namibia 929Reunion 381Senegal 875Seychelles 161South Africa 9,091Sudan 436Swaziland 870Tanzania 692Tunisia 6,762Uganda 642Zambia 897Zimbabwe 2,508

Mean : 1,513

Mode : none

Median : 667

Standard deviation : 2,351

Range : 9,091

Middle EastMean : 3,815

Mode : none

Median : 2,277

Standard deviation : 3,960

Range : 11,531

Middle East 46,646

Bahrain 4,935

Egypt 10,610

Jordan 3,430

Lebanon 1,017

Oman 1,124

Qatar 964

Saudi Arabia 11,531

Syrian Arab Republic 4,158

Untd Arab Emirates ..

Yemen 379

Whole WorldMean : 7,831

Mode : none

Median : 2,172

Standard deviation : 13,375

Range : 81,940 0

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As you can see in this graph and the graph in the previous slide, there is relatively high amount of countries who have less than 8000 visitors, which is the mean number. However, the number of countries decrease as the amount of the visitors increase. Therefore, we can say that this data is “quite” normally distributed.

Top 10 Most Visited Countries

France 81,940Spain 58,666United States 55,986China 54,720Italy 43,654United Kingdom 30,871Germany 24,420Ukraine 23,122Turkey 22,248Mexico 21,370

This ranking is based on the data shown previously (2007)

Mean : 41,700

Mode : none

Median : 37,263

Standard deviation : 19,589

Range : 60,570

Most Visited Country : France

Mean : 70,270

Mode : none

Median : 73,042

Standard deviation : 9,756

Range : 29,461

Line of best fit : 3.814x^4-30501.708x^3+91471160.351x^2-121915803866.3x+60934800335681 (r^2 = 0.999)

Year Tourists

1990 52,479

1995 60,033

1998 70,040

1999 73,042

2000 75,500

2006 78,853

2007 81,940

Model Graph

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Conclusion

Europe is the most visited continent.

Among 107 countries around the world, France is the most visited country.

Two countries that the data wasn’t collected would affect the result.

It is very hard to count every single international tourists.

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