Seventy-three million Americans travel abroad every year. In the 2015 fiscal year, the State Department issued nearly 50,000 emergency passports, responded to 31,581 "welfare and whereabout" queries and scheduled 9,425 visits to Americans imprisoned overseas. More than 10,500 U.S. citizens also died on foreign soil. (The data includes tourists and expats.) The moral of the stats: Stuff - serious stuff - happens during international trips.