Air passengers carried in World
Airlines registered in the world carried 4,268,984,474 passengers in 2023.
World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
World, 2023
4,268,984,474
Change from 2022
+32.2%
European Union, 2023
700,152,461 passengers
Air passengers carried in World 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 | World | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4,268,984,474 passengers | 700,152,461 passengers |
| 2022 | 3,230,288,280 passengers | 597,439,599 passengers |
| 2021 | 2,279,974,770 passengers | 300,510,413 passengers |
| 2020 | 1,771,894,087 passengers | 224,581,686 passengers |
| 2019 | 4,455,690,101 passengers | 752,764,694 passengers |
| 2018 | 4,293,921,426 passengers | 691,558,405 passengers |
| 2017 | 4,025,616,012 passengers | 657,059,035 passengers |
| 2016 | 3,760,774,350 passengers | 620,961,607 passengers |
| 2015 | 3,525,115,153 passengers | 588,104,162 passengers |
| 2014 | 3,285,080,769 passengers | 548,633,991 passengers |
| 2013 | 3,100,200,780 passengers | 522,944,433 passengers |
| 2012 | 2,943,247,913 passengers | 514,301,801 passengers |
| 2011 | 2,833,214,050 passengers | 515,081,475 passengers |
| 2010 | 2,669,414,339 passengers | 483,874,507 passengers |
| 2009 | 2,249,728,546 passengers | 419,908,189 passengers |
| 2008 | 2,208,218,737 passengers | 427,781,328 passengers |
| 2007 | 2,209,136,496 passengers | 425,646,377 passengers |
| 2006 | 2,072,413,898 passengers | 390,742,949 passengers |
| 2005 | 1,969,590,799 passengers | 359,471,494 passengers |
| 2004 | 1,888,695,284 passengers | 347,767,674 passengers |
| 2003 | 1,665,309,283 passengers | 317,807,082 passengers |
| 2002 | 1,627,404,873 passengers | 287,161,373 passengers |
| 2001 | 1,655,230,214 passengers | 286,388,891 passengers |
| 2000 | 1,674,064,712 passengers | 288,449,342 passengers |
| 1999 | 1,562,256,300 passengers | 266,190,600 passengers |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +32.2% from 3,230,288,280 passengers in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 3,100,200,780 passengers, the figure has changed by +37.7%.
- The figure for the European Union in 2023 was 700,152,461 passengers.