Key takeaways
- 7,850,222 distinct Airbnb listings across 60+ countries — deduplicated to one record per listing, this is roughly 87–98% of Airbnb's own stated 8–9M global active inventory, built without touching Airbnb's investor deck.
- The United States (1.21M listings) and France (922K) alone account for over a quarter of the entire measured census — France, a country a sixteenth the US's population, runs nearly as many listings as the US does.
- Airbnb ratings barely function as a filter: 4.81★ average across 4.97M rated listings, and 89.5% of every rated listing sits at 4.5★ or above. A 4.2★ listing isn't mediocre on this platform — it's in the bottom decile.
- Nightly prices vary 5–6× across markets that carry a comparable USD price tag: $250 median in the Netherlands and $231 in the US, versus $43 in India and $35 in Kenya — for the ~18% of listings with a captured, USD-denominated rate.
- Superhost counts are a lower bound by design (status is only recorded when a listing is re-scanned), so we don't headline a rate — see the method note for why we show raw counts instead.
- Everything below is queryable over Crawlora's Airbnb Markets API — aggregate market rollups only, never individual listings, hosts, photos or review text.
Every "Airbnb statistics 2026" post on the internet cites the same handful of numbers — Airbnb's own investor letter, host counts, gross booking value. None of it says where the actual supply sits, market by market, or what a listing in Croatia costs against one in Norway. So we built that map ourselves: a logged-out, map-grid census of 7,850,222 distinct Airbnb listings across 60+ countries, deduplicated to one record per listing.
Method at a glance
- Discovery: logged-out map-grid search of public Airbnb listings, reverse-geocoded to a country, deduplicated to one record per distinct listing ID.
- Coverage: 7,850,222 distinct listings observed, of which 7,745,272 resolve to a country. Airbnb states roughly 8–9M active listings worldwide, so this census sits at 87–98% of Airbnb's own claimed global inventory — a near-complete public-supply count, not a sample.
- Ratings: computed only over the 4,968,367 listings (63% of the geo-resolved total) that carry a rating; an unrated listing is excluded, never counted as a zero.
- Prices: the median nightly rate for the ~18.7% of listings with a captured, USD-denominated price. Listings without a captured currency are excluded rather than mixed in.
- Superhost: captured only when a listing is scanned, so the raw count is a floor, not a rate — we don't headline a percentage (see the caveats).
- Aggregate-only, published under /datasets/airbnb: every number below is a market rollup by country, metro or geo cell. No individual listings, hosts, photos or review text ever leave the aggregate.
- Snapshot dated July 3, 2026.
Where the world's Airbnb supply actually sits
Two countries — the United States and France — account for more than a quarter of every listing in the census. France in particular is a striking outlier: a country of 68 million people runs 922,055 listings, not far behind the US's 1.21 million from a population of 340 million. Airbnb density, it turns out, tracks tourism intensity and regulatory permissiveness a lot more than population.
Croatia is the census's biggest surprise: a country of under 4 million people runs 156,789 listings — more than Canada, Australia or Japan. Coastal Adriatic tourism and a light regulatory hand turned a small country into the sixth-largest single market for short-term rental supply on earth.
Show the full 60-country table (listings, rating, median price)
Airbnb listing census by country, July 2026: distinct listings, average rating, and median nightly price (USD-priced listings only)
| Country | Listings | Avg rating | Median nightly (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States (US) | 1,212,294 | 4.85★ | $231 |
| France (FR) | 922,055 | 4.81★ | $123 |
| Brazil (BR) | 548,223 | 4.86★ | $83 |
| Italy (IT) | 459,280 | 4.79★ | $166 |
| United Kingdom (GB) | 351,401 | 4.81★ | $176 |
| Spain (ES) | 311,308 | 4.73★ | $162 |
| Germany (DE) | 244,305 | 4.80★ | $141 |
| India (IN) | 206,714 | 4.71★ | $43 |
| Mexico (MX) | 198,321 | 4.79★ | $95 |
| Croatia (HR) | 156,789 | 4.83★ | $189 |
| Greece (GR) | 155,794 | 4.84★ | $173 |
| Canada (CA) | 146,890 | 4.84★ | $153 |
| Australia (AU) | 144,967 | 4.80★ | $213 |
| Indonesia (ID) | 124,883 | 4.77★ | $56 |
| Colombia (CO) | 116,025 | 4.78★ | $91 |
| Philippines (PH) | 115,134 | 4.77★ | $50 |
| Portugal (PT) | 109,601 | 4.75★ | $170 |
| Argentina (AR) | 108,259 | 4.81★ | $79 |
| Thailand (TH) | 108,178 | 4.75★ | $80 |
| Japan (JP) | 98,220 | 4.78★ | $123 |
| South Africa (ZA) | 92,797 | 4.77★ | $83 |
| Morocco (MA) | 90,471 | 4.78★ | $89 |
| Vietnam (VN) | 90,469 | 4.79★ | $51 |
| Malaysia (MY) | 83,086 | 4.71★ | $67 |
| Poland (PL) | 81,803 | 4.75★ | $134 |
| Chile (CL) | 70,821 | 4.82★ | $84 |
| South Korea (KR) | 68,983 | 4.82★ | $111 |
| Sweden (SE) | 57,698 | 4.83★ | $189 |
| Switzerland (CH) | 51,504 | 4.81★ | $233 |
| Egypt (EG) | 50,180 | 4.79★ | $71 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 49,336 | 4.76★ | $250 |
| Austria (AT) | 49,327 | 4.79★ | $178 |
| Norway (NO) | 49,110 | 4.85★ | $211 |
| Denmark (DK) | 48,416 | 4.80★ | $221 |
| Peru (PE) | 48,391 | 4.79★ | $54 |
| Türkiye (TR) | 47,093 | 4.74★ | $155 |
| New Zealand (NZ) | 36,028 | 4.86★ | $224 |
| Kenya (KE) | 35,045 | 4.76★ | $35 |
| Belgium (BE) | 31,893 | 4.76★ | $173 |
| United Arab Emirates (AE) | 30,717 | 4.70★ | $115 |
| Costa Rica (CR) | 30,517 | 4.84★ | $98 |
| Dominican Republic (DO) | 28,184 | 4.81★ | $102 |
| Albania (AL) | 27,545 | 4.80★ | $86 |
| Romania (RO) | 26,647 | 4.86★ | $78 |
| Saudi Arabia (SA) | 26,392 | 4.75★ | $92 |
| Sri Lanka (LK) | 25,854 | 4.77★ | $47 |
| Finland (FI) | 25,422 | 4.79★ | $146 |
| Czechia (CZ) | 24,950 | 4.80★ | $121 |
| Pakistan (PK) | 24,837 | 4.81★ | $45 |
| Ecuador (EC) | 21,720 | 4.81★ | $49 |
| Uruguay (UY) | 17,841 | 4.81★ | $99 |
| Nigeria (NG) | 17,022 | 4.70★ | $95 |
| Puerto Rico (PR) | 15,747 | 4.84★ | $191 |
| Ghana (GH) | 14,627 | 4.75★ | $70 |
| Israel (IL) | 13,865 | 4.81★ | $283 |
| Ukraine (UA) | 13,618 | 4.85★ | $52 |
| Tunisia (TN) | 13,516 | 4.76★ | $84 |
| Ireland (IE) | 13,238 | 4.84★ | $187 |
| Slovenia (SI) | 12,313 | 4.82★ | $168 |
| Taiwan (TW) | 11,976 | 4.81★ | $99 |
All 60 countries in the census, ranked by listing count. Rating and price columns are computed over the subset of listings in that country carrying a rating / USD price respectively. Source: Crawlora Airbnb Markets dataset, July 3, 2026 snapshot.
Ratings barely discriminate anymore
If you filter Airbnb by "4.5 stars and up," you're filtering out almost nothing. Across the 4,968,367 rated listings in the census, the distribution is packed into the top band:
Two-thirds of rated listings sit at 4.8★ or higher, and 89.5% clear 4.5★. Fewer than one in a hundred rated listings falls under 4.0★. This is the same grade-inflation pattern that shows up in Uber driver ratings and eBay seller feedback: a two-sided reputation system where hosts can decline problem guests and guests self-select toward listings that already look safe, compressing the whole distribution toward the ceiling. On a platform like this, a 4.3★ listing isn't "pretty good" — it's in roughly the bottom 8% of the rated population.
Nightly prices span a 5–6× range across otherwise-comparable markets
Only about 18.7% of listings in the census carry a captured, USD-denominated nightly price — almost all listings price in local currency, and we exclude those rather than force a currency conversion that would introduce its own error. Within that USD-priced subset, though, the country-to-country spread is stark:
The US ($231 median) and France ($123 median) — the two biggest markets by supply — sit at opposite ends of the price spectrum, not because Airbnb's product differs but because average nightly rates track each country's cost of living and average trip type (short city breaks in France's dense supply vs. longer-stay vacation rentals common in the US). Across the full country table above, the range runs from Israel's $283 median down to Kenya's $35 — an 8× spread that a single "average Airbnb price" headline number completely erases.
Why we don't headline a Superhost rate
Superhost status is captured at the moment a listing is scanned, which means the aggregate count in this census — 195,000+ observed Superhost listings across all 60 countries — is a floor, not a rate. A listing that earned Superhost status after our last visit to its page is counted as non-Superhost until it's re-scanned. Reporting superhost_observed ÷ total_listings as "the Superhost rate" would systematically understate reality, so the dataset API exposes the raw observed count and lets you judge coverage for your own use case rather than us publishing a number we know is biased low.
What this means if you build on Airbnb data
For property managers and revenue-management tools, the takeaway is that "average nightly rate" is close to meaningless without a country (or better, metro) anchor — the 8× country spread dwarfs any seasonal or day-of-week effect you'd otherwise be modeling. For market-entry and investment research, supply density (Croatia's outlier position, France's tourism-driven scale) is a far better leading indicator than population or GDP. And for competitive intelligence on the short-term-rental sector generally, a rating-based quality filter is close to useless above 4.0★ — you need occupancy, review-volume, or price-tier signals instead, since almost every active listing already clears the rating bar.
For a US-specific cut of this same dataset, see where Airbnb listings actually outnumber homes for sale — we joined this Airbnb census against Crawlora's Housing Markets dataset by metro.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Airbnb listings are there in 2026?
Crawlora's July 2026 census counted 7,850,222 distinct Airbnb listings across 60+ countries, deduplicated to one record per listing. That's roughly 87-98% of Airbnb's own stated 8-9M global active inventory - a near-complete public-supply count, built independently of Airbnb's investor disclosures.
Which countries have the most Airbnb listings?
The United States leads with 1,212,294 listings, followed by France (922,055), Brazil (548,223), Italy (459,280), and the United Kingdom (351,401). France stands out for its density: a country a fraction of the US's population runs nearly as many listings.
What is the average Airbnb rating?
4.81 stars across the 4,968,367 rated listings in the census (63% of the geo-resolved total). Ratings barely discriminate: 89.5% of every rated listing sits at 4.5 stars or above, and two-thirds clear 4.8 stars - a listing under 4.0 stars is in roughly the bottom 1% of the platform.
How much does an Airbnb cost by country?
Among the ~18.7% of listings with a captured, USD-denominated nightly price, medians range from $283 in Israel and $250 in the Netherlands down to $43 in India and $35 in Kenya - roughly an 8x spread. The two largest markets by supply, the US ($231) and France ($123), sit far apart, reflecting cost of living and trip-type differences rather than platform differences.
Is this individual listing data or aggregates?
Aggregate-only. Every figure is a market rollup by country, metro, or geographic cell - listing counts, ratings, price bands and Superhost counts. No individual listings, host names, photos or review text are ever published; thin cells are suppressed.
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