Air passengers carried in North America
Airlines registered in North America carried 1,030,175,000 passengers in 2023. The value for 2023 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1970.
North America is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
North America, 2023
1,030,175,000
Change from 2022
+12.0%
World, 2023
4,268,984,474 passengers
Air passengers carried in North America over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Passengers. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | North America | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,030,175,000 passengers | 4,268,984,474 passengers |
| 2022 | 919,704,000 passengers | 3,230,288,280 passengers |
| 2021 | 691,104,000 passengers | 2,279,974,770 passengers |
| 2020 | 397,121,000 passengers | 1,771,894,087 passengers |
| 2019 | 1,020,089,000 passengers | 4,455,690,101 passengers |
| 2018 | 980,528,000 passengers | 4,293,921,426 passengers |
| 2017 | 940,807,001 passengers | 4,025,616,012 passengers |
| 2016 | 909,445,425 passengers | 3,760,774,350 passengers |
| 2015 | 878,450,302 passengers | 3,525,115,153 passengers |
| 2014 | 838,238,607 passengers | 3,285,080,769 passengers |
| 2013 | 814,697,726 passengers | 3,100,200,780 passengers |
| 2012 | 807,166,401 passengers | 2,943,247,913 passengers |
| 2011 | 796,874,012 passengers | 2,833,214,050 passengers |
| 2010 | 783,774,409 passengers | 2,669,414,339 passengers |
| 2009 | 732,006,924 passengers | 2,249,728,546 passengers |
| 2008 | 755,498,308 passengers | 2,208,218,737 passengers |
| 2007 | 796,405,857 passengers | 2,209,136,496 passengers |
| 2006 | 772,257,943 passengers | 2,072,413,898 passengers |
| 2005 | 765,777,598 passengers | 1,969,590,799 passengers |
| 2004 | 718,811,915 passengers | 1,888,695,284 passengers |
| 2003 | 624,881,527 passengers | 1,665,309,283 passengers |
| 2002 | 621,733,444 passengers | 1,627,404,873 passengers |
| 2001 | 662,639,760 passengers | 1,655,230,214 passengers |
| 2000 | 707,095,388 passengers | 1,674,064,712 passengers |
| 1999 | 658,966,608 passengers | 1,562,256,300 passengers |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +12.0% from 919,704,000 passengers in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 814,697,726 passengers, the figure has changed by +26.4%.
- The figure for the world in 2023 was 4,268,984,474 passengers.