Tourism · Chart
The United States and the United Kingdom sent the most tourists to South Africa in 2024
372thousand arrivals United States · Highest
The United States led with 372,000 arrivals, just ahead of the United Kingdom on 350,000. China, at 42,000, sent fewer than an eighth of that.
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Method and sources
Each bar is the number of tourist arrivals in South Africa in 2024 from that country, in thousands, as printed in the article's chart.
United States 372k, United Kingdom 350k, Germany 255k, Netherlands 132k, China 42k.
The article plots these arrivals against each country's rank among Cape Town property buyers. Only the arrivals are charted here, because the ranking is an ordinal scale rather than a quantity. The article gives the year only, so the period is the 2024 calendar year.
Sources: Statistics South Africa (https://www.statssa.gov.za/) credited in the article for the arrivals figures. The link is to the publisher, not the exact release.
Figures as published in our guide to buying property in South Africa (chart last checked 14 September 2026): Statistics South Africa tourist arrivals for 2024.
Chart updated · 11 Oct 2026. The observation dates above describe the data, not today’s conditions.
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