Air passengers carried in European Union

Airlines registered in the European Union carried 700,152,461 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1970 to 2023 Source: World Bank
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2023 700,152,461 Passengers
Change from 2022 +17.2% 2022: 597,439,599 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate

Air passengers carried in European Union 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 European UnionWorld
2023 700,152,461 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 597,439,599 passengers 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 300,510,413 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 224,581,686 passengers 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 752,764,694 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 691,558,405 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 657,059,035 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 620,961,607 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 588,104,162 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 548,633,991 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 522,944,433 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 514,301,801 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 515,081,475 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 483,874,507 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 419,908,189 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 427,781,328 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 425,646,377 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 390,742,949 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 359,471,494 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 347,767,674 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 317,807,082 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 287,161,373 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 286,388,891 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 288,449,342 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 266,190,600 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +17.2% from 597,439,599 passengers in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 522,944,433 passengers, the figure has changed by +33.9%.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 4,268,984,474 passengers.

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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 European Union
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