Air passengers carried in Canada

Airlines registered in Canada carried 88,618,000 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1970 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Canada, 2023 88,618,000 Passengers
Change from 2022 +32.5% 2022: 66,876,000 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate
Position in 2023 13th of 149 See the full ranking

Air passengers carried in Canada 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 CanadaWorld
2023 88,618,000 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 66,876,000 passengers 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 24,951,000 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 27,620,000 passengers 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 93,352,000 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 91,504,000 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 91,404,001 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 85,406,425 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 80,228,302 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 75,528,607 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 71,526,726 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 70,467,401 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 66,078,012 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 63,277,409 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 52,583,516 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 53,718,757 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 52,103,547 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 46,726,978 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 45,229,860 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 40,701,307 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 35,884,417 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 23,323,029 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 40,451,914 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 41,767,974 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 24,602,000 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +32.5% from 66,876,000 passengers in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 71,526,726 passengers, the figure has changed by +23.9%.
  • Among the 149 countries with data for 2023, Canada has the 13th 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
1970 to 2023 for Canada
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