Top 30 international countries visiting the UK

FOI reference: FOI-2025-2781

You asked

I am writing to you to request information regarding international visitors to the UK.

I would be extremely grateful if you could provide me with a list of the top 30 international countries or nationalities for visitors visiting the United Kingdom in 2023? I am primarily interested in the ranking based on the total number of visits or visitors from each country or nationality.

We said

Thank you for your request.

We publish this information as part of our Travel Trends series which is available on our website. In Table 4 of Travel Trends 2023 Section 4 - Travel trends estimates: overseas residents in the UK - Office for National Statistics, you'll find the data you are after for Visits, Nights and Spending in columns R, S and T (by Country); this is for all countries we collected data for. 

In Table 18 of Travel Trends 2023 Section 2 - Travel trends estimates: overseas residents in the UK - Office for National Statistics, you will also find the confidence intervals for Visits by Country. Table 19 then has Nights and Table 20 has Spend.

To help with your request, please also see the associated download with the visits ranked for the top 30 countries.