The table compares the number of tourists from Australia to the seven most popular countries in 1999 and 2009. Overall, the number of Australian visitors to all countries increased over 10 years, with China exhibiting the highest growth rate. In 1999, China received the smallest number of Australian tourists out of the seven countries, whereas the opposite was true for New Zealand. However, in 2009, Japan was visited by the smallest number of Australians, while, like in the former year, New Zealand received the largest share of the tourists.
In 1999 and 2009, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States received significantly more tourists from Australia than the other four countries, with all experiencing growth in the number of visitors. In 1999, New Zealand took the lead, receiving 500,700 tourists, followed by the UK with 400,000 and the US with 300,000. In 2009, the number of tourists to New Zealand experienced 113% growth, reaching 1,064,000. Meanwhile, the UK saw a 60% growth rate, as the number of tourists rose to 640,000. The visitor numbers in the US increased to 400,000 in 2009, showing a modest growth rate of only 33%, which was the lowest among all growth rate figures in the chart.
150,000 Australian people visited Indonesia in 1999, a figure which then jumped to 340,000 in 2009, exhibiting a 127% growth rate. Fiji and Japan were visited by 120,000 and 100,000 Australians in 1999, respectively. The number of tourists to the former country rose to 257,000 at a 114% growth rate, while the latter witnessed a growth rate of 150%, where the tourist numbers reached 250,000. China received only 86,000 visitors from Australia in 1999. Notably, in 2009, the figure surged to 300,000, recording a 249% growth rate.