Airbnb says it now has more than 9 million active listings across over 220 countries and regions. That is enough spare bedrooms, beach villas, shepherd’s huts and suspiciously photogenic city flats to make a simple question rather difficult: where are they all? (Airbnb Newsroom) The United States takes first place, which probably will not surprise anyone who follows global travel markets. The rest of the ranking is less predictable. France is close to one million listings, Brazil narrowly beats Italy, and Australia holds tenth place by fewer than 8,500 listings.
Airbnb’s public fast-facts page gives a worldwide total rather than a live country leaderboard. For the ranking below, we have used Inside Airbnb’s global dataset, collected between October and December 2025. It identified 8,347,967 publicly visible listings across 218 active countries and territories. Think of it as a detailed snapshot, not a counter ticking away in real time. (Inside Airbnb)
The countries with the most Airbnb listings
| Rank | Country | Listings | Share of global dataset | Listings per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 1,521,417 | 18.22% | 44.3 |
| 2 | France | 984,262 | 11.79% | 148.1 |
| 3 | Brazil | 559,907 | 6.71% | 26.5 |
| 4 | Italy | 529,250 | 6.34% | 89.0 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 379,001 | 4.54% | 54.9 |
| 6 | Spain | 366,171 | 4.39% | 76.4 |
| 7 | Mexico | 290,723 | 3.48% | 22.4 |
| 8 | Germany | 251,025 | 3.01% | 29.7 |
| 9 | Canada | 176,673 | 2.12% | 45.0 |
| 10 | Australia | 164,886 | 1.98% | 62.3 |
Source: Inside Airbnb, with data collected between October and December 2025. The population comparison uses the United Nations’ World Population Prospects 2024 dataset. (Inside Airbnb; United Nations)
Key takeaways
- Most listings: United States, with 1,521,417.
- Highest top-ten concentration: France, with 148.1 listings per 10,000 residents.
- Closest top-ten race: Australia leads Greece by 8,458 listings.
Those first five countries account for roughly 47.6% of all listings found in the independent dataset. Expand the group to the top ten and the share rises to 62.6%. (Inside Airbnb)
The United States is in a category of its own
The United States has just over 1.52 million listings, giving it a lead of 537,155 over France. Here is another way to picture the gap: the US has more listings than Brazil, Italy and the United Kingdom combined. Add those three countries together and the US still leads by 53,259 listings. (Inside Airbnb)
That does not mean Airbnb is equally common across the US. A listing in a Florida beach town, a Manhattan apartment and a cabin near a national park all land in the same national total. The population figure also takes some shine off the runaway lead. The US has 44.3 listings per 10,000 residents. France has 148.1, more than three times the American rate. The US wins on size. It does not win on concentration. (Inside Airbnb)
France is the real surprise
France has 984,262 listings in the dataset, representing nearly 12% of the worldwide count. That puts it far ahead of every European country and within touching distance of one million. Its scale becomes clearer when you start combining other markets. The United Kingdom, Spain and Germany have 996,197 listings between them. France alone is only 11,935 behind that combined figure. (Inside Airbnb)
France also has 148.1 listings per 10,000 residents. Among the countries in the top ten, that is the highest rate by a comfortable margin. Italy follows at 89.0, then Spain at 76.4. So France is not simply high on the list because it is a large country. Airbnb supply is also substantial relative to its population. (Inside Airbnb)
Brazil and Italy are almost neck and neck
Brazil takes third place with 559,907 listings. Italy follows with 529,250. The gap is 30,657 listings, small enough that these positions could change as listings are opened, paused or removed. Together, the two countries account for just over 13% of the global dataset. (Inside Airbnb)
Image: Ipanema Beach by João Thiago da Silva, CC BY-SA 4.0. (Wikimedia Commons)
Their per-capita figures tell two very different stories. Brazil has 26.5 listings per 10,000 residents. Italy has 89.0. Brazil edges ahead on total volume partly because it has a much larger population, while Airbnb listings are considerably more concentrated in Italy. Same ranking table, very different market shape. (Inside Airbnb)
The United Kingdom only just beats Spain
The United Kingdom has 379,001 listings, placing it fifth. Spain follows with 366,171. That is a gap of only 12,830 listings, less than one percentage point of the worldwide total. (Inside Airbnb)
Spain has fewer listings overall, but more relative to its population: 76.4 per 10,000 residents compared with 54.9 in the UK. It is a useful reminder that a national total answers one question only: how many listings were counted? It does not tell you how widely they are spread, how frequently they are booked or how visible they feel within individual destinations.
Australia is clinging to tenth place
Australia rounds out the top ten with 164,886 listings. Greece sits directly behind it with 156,428, a difference of just 8,458. Croatia follows in twelfth place with 146,712. (Inside Airbnb)
Image: Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 4.0. (Wikimedia Commons)
Australia could therefore slip out of the top ten without any dramatic change to the global map. A relatively modest shift in supply, or a difference in collection timing, could be enough. That is why a ranking without a date is not much use. Listing markets move.
Europe and the Americas dominate the table
Five of the top ten countries are European:
- France
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Germany
Four are in the Americas: the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Canada. Australia is the only top-ten country outside those two broad regions. Across the full dataset, Europe accounts for 43.06% of listings and the Americas for 37.71%. Combined, that is just over 80% of the independent worldwide count. (Inside Airbnb)
The leading country on each continent looks like this:
| Region | Leading market | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Americas | United States | 1,521,417 |
| Europe | France | 984,262 |
| Oceania | Australia | 164,886 |
| Asia | India | 126,537 |
| Africa | South Africa | 82,599 |
India ranks thirteenth globally, while South Africa ranks twentieth. Neither Asia nor Africa places a country in the top ten. (Inside Airbnb)
The ranking changes when population enters the picture
Raw totals naturally favour large countries. Measuring listings against population produces a stranger and, in some ways, more revealing map. Croatia is only twelfth by total listings, but it has 376.6 listings per 10,000 residents. Greece, in eleventh place, has 152.7. Both sit above France’s already substantial rate of 148.1. (Inside Airbnb)
Small island territories push the numbers higher still. The report records 1,534.5 listings per 10,000 residents in Saint Barthélemy, 725.2 in Saint Martin and 616.5 in the US Virgin Islands. Those figures need careful reading. The denominator is the resident population, not the number of homes. The numerator is a count of listing records, not a measure of occupancy or booked nights. (Inside Airbnb)
A listing count is not a booking count, a host count or a census of homes available on any particular night.
A country can rank highly because it is enormous. A smaller destination can rank much lower while feeling far more saturated locally. Both facts can be true.
Sources
- Airbnb Newsroom, fast facts. (Airbnb Newsroom)
- Inside Airbnb. (Inside Airbnb)
- Inside Airbnb, full report PDF. (Inside Airbnb)
- United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024. (United Nations)
- Header image: Manarola, Cinque Terre, by Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0. (Wikimedia Commons)
