Air passengers carried in Botswana

Airlines registered in Botswana carried 172,720 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1979 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Botswana, 2023 172,720 Passengers
Change from 2022 +38.8% 2022: 124,415 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate
Position in 2023 129th of 149 See the full ranking

Air passengers carried in Botswana 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 BotswanaWorld
2023 172,720 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 124,415 passengers 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 172,017 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 – 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 254,439 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 253,417 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 223,673 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 254,396 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 226,549 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 205,992 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 270,996 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 415,130 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 415,864 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 290,195 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 233,515 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 236,182 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 227,624 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 213,587 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 229,987 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 212,951 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 188,842 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 179,041 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 169,526 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 163,909 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 144,100 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +38.8% from 124,415 passengers in 2022.
  • Since 2012, when it was 415,130 passengers, the figure has changed by −58.4%.
  • Among the 149 countries with data for 2023, Botswana has the 129th 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
1979 to 2023 for Botswana
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