| Year | Expenditure on outbound tourism (USD billion) | Growth Rate of expenditure on outbound tourism | Number of outbound tourists (10,000 people) | Growth rate of number of outbound tourists |
| 2000 | 162.31 | 15.13% | 1047.26 |
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| 2001 | 177.92 | 9.62% | 1213.31 | 15.86% |
| 2002 | 203.85 | 14.57% | 1660.23 | 36.83% |
| 2003 | 174.06 | −14% | 2022.19 | 21.80% |
| 2004 | 257.39 | 47.87% | 2885.29 | 42.68% |
| 2005 | 292.96 | 13.82% | 3103.00 | 7.55% |
| 2006 | 339.49 | 15.88% | 3452.36 | 11.26% |
| 2007 | 372.33 | 9.67% | 4095.40 | 18.63% |
| 2008 | 408.43 | 9.70% | 4584.44 | 11.94% |
| 2009 | 396.75 | −2.86% | 4765.63 | 3.95% |
| 2010 | 458.14 | 15.47% | 5739.00 | 20.42% |
| 2011 | 484.64 | 5.78% | 7025.00 | 22.41% |
| 2012 | 500.28 | 3.23% | 8318.27 | 18.41% |
| 2013 | 516.60 | 3.26% | 9818.52 | 18.04% |
| 2014 | 512.00 | −0.89% | 10900.00 | 11.01% |