Air passengers carried in Papua New Guinea

Airlines registered in Papua New Guinea carried 1,547,502 passengers in 2023.

Measure: Air passengers carried Unit: Passengers Data: 1975 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Papua New Guinea, 2023 1,547,502 Passengers
Change from 2022 +4.9% 2022: 1,475,719 passengers
World, 2023 4,268,984,474 passengers Official aggregate
Position in 2023 86th of 149 See the full ranking

Air passengers carried in Papua New Guinea 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 Papua New GuineaWorld
2023 1,547,502 passengers 4,268,984,474 passengers
2022 1,475,719 passengers 3,230,288,280 passengers
2021 1,039,010 passengers 2,279,974,770 passengers
2020 932,389 passengers 1,771,894,087 passengers
2019 2,029,701 passengers 4,455,690,101 passengers
2018 1,831,903 passengers 4,293,921,426 passengers
2017 1,864,653 passengers 4,025,616,012 passengers
2016 1,711,274 passengers 3,760,774,350 passengers
2015 1,679,156 passengers 3,525,115,153 passengers
2014 2,074,020 passengers 3,285,080,769 passengers
2013 1,870,968 passengers 3,100,200,780 passengers
2012 1,630,308 passengers 2,943,247,913 passengers
2011 1,563,594 passengers 2,833,214,050 passengers
2010 1,405,169 passengers 2,669,414,339 passengers
2009 847,353 passengers 2,249,728,546 passengers
2008 904,885 passengers 2,208,218,737 passengers
2007 918,665 passengers 2,209,136,496 passengers
2006 918,640 passengers 2,072,413,898 passengers
2005 818,773 passengers 1,969,590,799 passengers
2004 762,784 passengers 1,888,695,284 passengers
2003 690,528 passengers 1,665,309,283 passengers
2002 1,234,779 passengers 1,627,404,873 passengers
2001 1,188,089 passengers 1,655,230,214 passengers
2000 1,099,772 passengers 1,674,064,712 passengers
1999 1,058,200 passengers 1,562,256,300 passengers

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +4.9% from 1,475,719 passengers in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 1,870,968 passengers, the figure has changed by −17.3%.
  • Among the 149 countries with data for 2023, Papua New Guinea has the 86th 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
1975 to 2023 for Papua New Guinea
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