Data · Trade & foreign investment
International tourism, number of arrivals: Vietnam, 1995–2020
- Latest (2020)
- 3.84 million arrivals
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- ST.INT.ARVL
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
International inbound tourists (overnight visitors) are the number of tourists who travel to a country other than that in which they have their usual residence, but outside their usual environment, for a period not exceeding 12 months and whose main purpose in visiting is other than an activity remunerated from within the country visited. When data on number of tourists are not available, the number of visitors, which includes tourists, same-day visitors, cruise passengers, and crew members, is shown instead. Sources and collection methods for arrivals differ across countries. In some cases data are from border statistics (police, immigration, and the like) and supplemented by border surveys. In other cases data are from tourism accommodation establishments. For some countries number of arrivals is limited to arrivals by air and for others to arrivals staying in hotels. Some countries include arrivals of nationals residing abroad while others do not. Caution should thus be used in comparing arrivals across countries. The data on inbound tourists refer to the number of arrivals, not to the number of people traveling. Thus a person who makes several trips to a country during a given period is counted each time as a new arrival.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1995 to 2020 (26 years of data). It moved from 1.35 to 3.84 million arrivals, a change of 184.0%. The highest value was 18.01 in 2019 and the lowest 1.35 in 1995. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (million arrivals) |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 3.84 |
| 2019 | 18.01 |
| 2018 | 15.50 |
| 2017 | 12.92 |
| 2016 | 10.01 |
| 2015 | 7.94 |
| 2014 | 7.87 |
| 2013 | 7.57 |
| 2012 | 6.85 |
| 2011 | 6.01 |
| 2010 | 5.05 |
| 2009 | 3.75 |
| 2008 | 4.24 |
| 2007 | 4.23 |
| 2006 | 3.58 |
| 2005 | 3.48 |
| 2004 | 2.93 |
| 2003 | 2.43 |
| 2002 | 2.63 |
| 2001 | 2.33 |
| 2000 | 2.14 |
| 1999 | 1.78 |
| 1998 | 1.52 |
| 1997 | 1.72 |
| 1996 | 1.61 |
| 1995 | 1.35 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2020 | 3.84 |
| Thailand | 2019 | 39.92 |
| Indonesia | 2020 | 4.05 |
| Malaysia | 2020 | 4.33 |
| Philippines | 2020 | 1.48 |
| Singapore | 2020 | 2.74 |
| Cambodia | 2020 | 1.31 |
| Laos | 2020 | 0.89 |
| Myanmar | 2020 | 0.90 |
| China | 2020 | 30.40 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). International tourism, number of arrivals, Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name st_int_arvl, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.