Air passengers carried in Bhutan

Airlines registered in Bhutan carried 189,878 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1988 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Bhutan, 2023 189,878 Passengers
Change from 2022 +45.5% 2022: 130,457 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate
Position in 2023 128th of 149 See the full ranking

Air passengers carried in Bhutan over time

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Passengers. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Air passengers carried (passengers), 1999 to 2023
Period BhutanWorld
2023 189,878 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 130,457 passengers 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 22,380 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 48,825 passengers 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 276,092 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 275,849 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 254,643 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 224,101 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 162,864 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 302,160 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 207,996 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 193,405 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 226,153 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 181,537 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 49,056 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 52,805 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 53,609 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 51,056 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 49,092 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 45,456 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 36,365 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 40,859 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 35,114 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 34,425 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 30,700 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +45.5% from 130,457 passengers in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 207,996 passengers, the figure has changed by −8.7%.
  • Among the 149 countries with data for 2023, Bhutan has the 128th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 4,268,984,474 passengers.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Civil Aviation Organization
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IS.AIR.PSGR · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1988 to 2023 for Bhutan
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Civil Aviation Organization