Air passengers carried in European Union
Airlines registered in the European Union carried 700,152,461 passengers in 2023.
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
Change from 2022
+17.2%
World, 2023
4,268,984,474 passengers
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.
| Period | European Union | World |
|---|---|---|
| 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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