Air passengers carried in Euro area

Airlines registered in the euro area carried 611,219,551 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1970 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2023 611,219,551 Passengers
Change from 2022 +15.5% 2022: 529,393,332 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate

Air passengers carried in Euro area 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 Euro areaWorld
2023 611,219,551 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 529,393,332 passengers 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 252,502,646 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 190,475,999 passengers 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 640,701,484 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 585,820,588 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 561,916,760 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 530,656,432 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 497,962,198 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 461,246,083 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 443,815,391 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 440,722,011 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 442,080,950 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 417,266,841 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 404,359,850 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 411,806,781 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 410,369,690 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 377,556,235 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 346,768,660 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 318,118,461 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 290,175,162 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 259,704,762 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 258,486,592 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 261,186,647 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 240,588,200 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +15.5% from 529,393,332 passengers in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 443,815,391 passengers, the figure has changed by +37.7%.
  • 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 Euro area
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