Air passengers carried in Netherlands
Airlines registered in Netherlands carried 41,436,802 passengers in 2023.
Netherlands, 2023
41,436,802
Change from 2022
+16.5%
European Union, 2023
700,152,461 passengers
Position in 2023
28th of 149
Air passengers carried in Netherlands 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 | Netherlands | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 41,436,802 passengers | 700,152,461 passengers |
| 2022 | 35,579,242 passengers | 597,439,599 passengers |
| 2021 | 19,349,166 passengers | 300,510,413 passengers |
| 2020 | 14,748,517 passengers | 224,581,686 passengers |
| 2019 | 46,358,458 passengers | 752,764,694 passengers |
| 2018 | 44,417,574 passengers | 691,558,405 passengers |
| 2017 | 42,763,443 passengers | 657,059,035 passengers |
| 2016 | 40,078,714 passengers | 620,961,607 passengers |
| 2015 | 35,687,843 passengers | 588,104,162 passengers |
| 2014 | 33,956,338 passengers | 548,633,991 passengers |
| 2013 | 33,455,251 passengers | 522,944,433 passengers |
| 2012 | 31,672,224 passengers | 514,301,801 passengers |
| 2011 | 29,959,476 passengers | 515,081,475 passengers |
| 2010 | 26,979,677 passengers | 483,874,507 passengers |
| 2009 | 29,108,547 passengers | 419,908,189 passengers |
| 2008 | 29,601,230 passengers | 427,781,328 passengers |
| 2007 | 28,857,440 passengers | 425,646,377 passengers |
| 2006 | 27,454,451 passengers | 390,742,949 passengers |
| 2005 | 26,132,696 passengers | 359,471,494 passengers |
| 2004 | 25,595,676 passengers | 347,767,674 passengers |
| 2003 | 23,454,932 passengers | 317,807,082 passengers |
| 2002 | 22,931,166 passengers | 287,161,373 passengers |
| 2001 | 20,072,980 passengers | 286,388,891 passengers |
| 2000 | 20,898,713 passengers | 288,449,342 passengers |
| 1999 | 19,741,200 passengers | 266,190,600 passengers |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +16.5% from 35,579,242 passengers in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 33,455,251 passengers, the figure has changed by +23.9%.
- Among the 149 countries with data for 2023, Netherlands has the 28th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2023 was 700,152,461 passengers.
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Car share of passenger transport
86.0%e (Estimated)
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Car ownership
519 per 1,000 people
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Road traffic deaths
3.1 per 100,000 people
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Rail passenger transport
17,729 million passenger-km
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Road share of inland freight transport
53.7%
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