Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2021, Sweden's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 11.7% compared to 2020, reaching 5,483,782.

Sweden accounts for 3.6% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.

Sweden ranks 7th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 53.5% (from 3,572,375 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.