{"id":3198,"date":"2024-05-27T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:46:05","slug":"how-many-travel-internationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/05\/27\/how-many-travel-internationally\/","title":{"rendered":"How many travel internationally?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pew Research study split survey respondents into three groups, based on who has traveled the most:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>26% of Americans are<strong>&nbsp;&#8220;globetrotters&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;who have traveled to five or more other countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>50% of Americans are&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;casual travelers&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;who have visited one to four other countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>23% of Americans are<strong>&nbsp;&#8220;non-travelers&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;who have not (yet) left the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Americans have some catching up to do if we want to be as well-traveled as people in Australia, Canada, South Korea, and Europe. Here&#8217;s how a few of those other places stack up in the rankings on the international &#8220;globetrotters&#8221; list (five or more countries visited):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th>Country<\/th><th>Percentage of People Who Have Visited 5 or More Countries<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>Australia<\/td><td>54%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Canada<\/td><td>43%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>France<\/td><td>54%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Germany<\/td><td>70%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Netherlands<\/td><td>83%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>South Korea<\/td><td>36%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sweden<\/td><td>88%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>69%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/are-you-a-globetrotter-see-how-your-travel-experience-stacks-up-to-average-americans\/ar-AA1mlTpA?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=ENTPSP&amp;cvid=a268cfa5bec440ebb40b8f8aa71da646&amp;ei=19\">Are You a &#8216;Globetrotter&#8217;? See How Your Travel Experience Stacks Up to Average Americans (msn.com)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I count a country visit as being in the country at least 24 hours. A flight stopover to change planes, sitting in the airport for a few hours, does not count as a country visit. If I were to count those, I&#8217;ve &#8220;been in&#8221; 2 additional countries for about 3 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been to the UK, Netherlands, Iceland and Norway plus Canada. I do not really count Canada on my country list because (a) we used to live close to the border and visited often, (b) still visit often, (c) my wife&#8217;s Dad was from Canada, (d) now our youngest daughter lives close to the border. No offense to Canada &#8211; in fact, we love visiting Canada &#8211; but it is a special situation for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 23% of Americans have not traveled to another country &#8211; and nearly all of those say they would do so if they could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-globally-experienced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}