Air passengers carried in North Korea

Airlines registered in North Korea carried 3,690 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1970 to 2023 Source: World Bank
North Korea, 2023 3,690 Passengers
Change from 2021 +604.5% 2021: 524 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate
Position in 2023 148th of 149 See the full ranking

Air passengers carried in North Korea 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 North KoreaWorld
2023 3,690 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 – 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 524 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 3,563 passengers 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 109,095 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 94,245 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 103,560 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 94,919 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 87,082 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 90,336 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 371,004 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 100,113 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 78,559 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 73,052 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 101,237 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 108,974 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 110,634 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 105,366 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 101,313 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 93,808 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 75,046 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 84,321 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 78,805 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 82,953 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 76,700 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 524 passengers in 2021, a change of +604.5%.
  • Since 2012, when it was 100,113 passengers, the figure has changed by −96.3%.
  • Among the 149 countries with data for 2023, North Korea has the 148th highest value.
  • 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 North Korea
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