The table compares the number of international travels made to five different regions – Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Middle West – in millions between 1990 and 2005.
Overall, there was a rise in the number of travelers to all given areas except for America, with Europe seeing the biggest change.
In 1990, a staggering 680.5 million people traveled to America, which then experienced a sharp drop to 112.5 million in 1995, and by the turn of the century, this figure had risen to 118.2 million. Over the following five years, the number of people traveling to America saw a slight decline to 113.2 million in 2005. This is largely at the expense of Europe, which witnessed a gradual increase in the volumes of international travels from 280.2 million in 1990 to 400.2 by 2005.
Another noticeable feature is seen in Asia and the Pacific, where the number of travelers went moderately from 60.2 million at the beginning to 135.8 by 2005. Similarly, Africa and Middle West also showed an increasing trend of international travels, going from 18.2 million and 9.8 million to 28.7 million and 15.8 million, respectively.
Obviously, the total number of people traveling across borders recorded a rise across the period, mainly due to the increasing trend of Europe. Starting at 448.9 million, the total figure underwent a series of increases before culminating in 693.7 million by 2005.