Rail passenger transport in Austria

Rail passengers in Austria travelled 14,978 million passenger-km in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2004.

Measure: Rail passenger transport Unit: Million passenger-kilometres Data: 2004 to 2025 Source: Eurostat
Austria, 2025 14,978 Million passenger-kilometres
Change from 2024 +0.9% 2024: 14,842 million passenger-km
European Union, 2023 429,575 million passenger-km Official aggregate Not the same period as Austria (2025).
Position in 2025 10th of 32 See the full ranking

Rail passenger transport in Austria over time

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Million passenger-kilometres. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Rail passenger transport (million passenger-kilometres), 2004 to 2025
Period AustriaEuropean Union
2025 14,978 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2024 14,842 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2023 14,435 million passenger-km 429,575 million passenger-km
2022 12,855 million passenger-km 386,741 million passenger-km
2021 8,447 million passenger-km 256,210 million passenger-km
2020 7,375 million passenger-km 221,836 million passenger-km
2019 13,252 million passenger-km 412,202 million passenger-km
2018 13,122 million passenger-km 399,024 million passenger-km
2017 12,562 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2016 12,497 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2015 12,104 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2014 11,981 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2013 11,804 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2012 11,211 million passenger-km –
2011 10,778 million passenger-km 363,380 million passenger-km
2010 10,263 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2009 10,184 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2008 10,365 million passenger-km not availablec (confidential)
2007 9,167 million passenger-km 346,565 million passenger-km
2006 8,907 million passenger-km 342,179 million passenger-km
2005 8,685 million passenger-km –
2004 8,274 million passenger-km –

Flags: c confidential . A dash means no value was published.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.9% from 14,842 million passenger-km in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 12,104 million passenger-km, the figure has changed by +23.7%.
  • Among the 32 countries with data for 2025, Austria has the 10th highest value.

Source and dates

Original producer
Eurostat
Source
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Dataset or series code
rail_pa_total · dataset details · view at source
Selection
freq=A unit=MIO_PKM
Observation period
2004 to 2025 for Austria
Provider update
29 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
Eurostat reuse policy (attribution)
Attribution
Source: Eurostat