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Could be, but I think that number includes people taking multiple trips each. Think businessmen.

I really don't think it's close to double digits. I don't even consider myself as having travelled a lot and I've taken two international trips per year for the last five or so years on average. There should be people who do dozens of international trips a year but there must be a lot of people who do two or three international trips a year.

Like a lot of things it's probably a heavily-skewed distribution. For a large number of europeans it could be a half dozen from holidays alone. For businesspeople in Europe it could easily be dozens of trips per year.

But there's probably huge swaths of the population who have never traveled internationally for economic reasons, or because they live in a large country (like China, the US, India or Russia) which makes that less necessary.

Or my relatives in Geneva, who regularly shop in France, dine in Germany, and then drive home, in the same day.

Also the schengen zone

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