The table illustrates the number of international travellers in five different continents within 1990 and 2005.
From an overall perspective, the total number of travellers increased over time. Noticeably, European travellers made up the largest proportion of total travellers, contrasting starkly with the number of travellers from the Middle East, which occupied for the least part.
In detail, the number of European people travelled internationally was 280.2 million in 1990, jumped to 390.3 million in 1995 before gradually climbing to 400.2 million in 2005. On the contrary, the data for the Middle East was just under 10 million in 1990 and steadily grew to 15.8 million in 2005.
The number of American people travelling overseas was 80.5 million, rose and peaked at 118.2 million in 2000 then fell back to 113.2 million in 2005. The same figure for the Asia and the Pacific started at 60.2 million in 1990 and overdoubled, hitting 135.8 million in 2005. The number of African international travellers was 18.2 million in 1990, constantly increased before reaching the highest point at 28.7 million in 2005.