Air passengers carried in South Asia
Airlines registered in South Asia carried 196,803,652 passengers in 2023. The value for 2023 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1970.
South Asia is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
South Asia, 2023
196,803,652
Change from 2022
+27.3%
World, 2023
4,268,984,474 passengers
Air passengers carried in South Asia 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 | South Asia | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 196,803,652 passengers | 4,268,984,474 passengers |
| 2022 | 154,600,221 passengers | 3,230,288,280 passengers |
| 2021 | 91,438,001 passengers | 2,279,974,770 passengers |
| 2020 | 75,515,186 passengers | 1,771,894,087 passengers |
| 2019 | 182,499,353 passengers | 4,455,690,101 passengers |
| 2018 | 181,588,447 passengers | 4,293,921,426 passengers |
| 2017 | 154,000,766 passengers | 4,025,616,012 passengers |
| 2016 | 130,946,386 passengers | 3,760,774,350 passengers |
| 2015 | 109,824,144 passengers | 3,525,115,153 passengers |
| 2014 | 92,371,330 passengers | 3,285,080,769 passengers |
| 2013 | 84,015,308 passengers | 3,100,200,780 passengers |
| 2012 | 79,933,577 passengers | 2,943,247,913 passengers |
| 2011 | 80,811,964 passengers | 2,833,214,050 passengers |
| 2010 | 70,300,954 passengers | 2,669,414,339 passengers |
| 2009 | 58,892,398 passengers | 2,249,728,546 passengers |
| 2008 | 54,717,867 passengers | 2,208,218,737 passengers |
| 2007 | 57,021,399 passengers | 2,209,136,496 passengers |
| 2006 | 45,773,342 passengers | 2,072,413,898 passengers |
| 2005 | 32,943,015 passengers | 1,969,590,799 passengers |
| 2004 | 28,563,261 passengers | 1,888,695,284 passengers |
| 2003 | 23,453,249 passengers | 1,665,309,283 passengers |
| 2002 | 21,361,233 passengers | 1,627,404,873 passengers |
| 2001 | 20,763,520 passengers | 1,655,230,214 passengers |
| 2000 | 21,379,284 passengers | 1,674,064,712 passengers |
| 1999 | 19,516,700 passengers | 1,562,256,300 passengers |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +27.3% from 154,600,221 passengers in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 84,015,308 passengers, the figure has changed by +134.2%.
- The figure for the world in 2023 was 4,268,984,474 passengers.