Rail passenger transport
The total distance travelled by rail passengers in the country, in millions of passenger-kilometres. One passenger travelling one kilometre counts as one passenger-kilometre.
Highest in 2025
111,764 million passenger-km
Germany
Lowest in 2025
3 million passenger-km
Kosovo
Countries ranked for 2025
32
Updated by the source on 29 October 2026
32 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
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Million passenger-kilometres. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | not availablec (confidential) | 111,764 million passenger-km | 110,618 million passenger-km | 38,274 million passenger-km |
| 2024 | not availablec (confidential) | 109,135 million passenger-km | 107,346 million passenger-km | 38,038 million passenger-km |
| 2023 | 429,575 million passenger-km | 101,408 million passenger-km | 101,316 million passenger-km | 34,632 million passenger-km |
| 2022 | 386,741 million passenger-km | 92,313 million passenger-km | 95,635 million passenger-km | 27,489 million passenger-km |
| 2021 | 256,210 million passenger-km | 57,518 million passenger-km | 70,481 million passenger-km | 17,002 million passenger-km |
| 2020 | 221,836 million passenger-km | 57,787 million passenger-km | 53,926 million passenger-km | 12,060 million passenger-km |
| 2019 | 412,202 million passenger-km | 100,252 million passenger-km | 93,504 million passenger-km | 28,847 million passenger-km |
| 2018 | 399,024 million passenger-km | 98,161 million passenger-km | 89,186 million passenger-km | 28,420 million passenger-km |
| 2017 | not availablec (confidential) | 95,529 million passenger-km | 92,331 million passenger-km | 27,490 million passenger-km |
| 2016 | not availablec (confidential) | 95,465 million passenger-km | 91,832 million passenger-km | 26,646 million passenger-km |
| 2015 | not availablec (confidential) | 91,050 million passenger-km | 91,377 million passenger-km | 26,108 million passenger-km |
| 2014 | not availablec (confidential) | 90,978 million passenger-km | 89,499 million passenger-km | 25,034 million passenger-km |
| 2013 | not availablec (confidential) | 89,450 million passenger-km | 90,485 million passenger-km | 23,755 million passenger-km |
| 2012 | – | 93,918 million passenger-km | 91,205 million passenger-km | 22,446 million passenger-km |
| 2011 | 363,380 million passenger-km | 89,316 million passenger-km | not availablec (confidential) | 22,931 million passenger-km |
| 2010 | not availablec (confidential) | 82,837 million passenger-km | not availablec (confidential) | 22,343 million passenger-km |
| 2009 | not availablec (confidential) | 81,206 million passenger-km | 88,610 million passenger-km | 23,055 million passenger-km |
| 2008 | not availablec (confidential) | 82,428 million passenger-km | 86,516 million passenger-km | 23,453 million passenger-km |
| 2007 | 346,565 million passenger-km | 79,098 million passenger-km | 81,961 million passenger-km | 21,362 million passenger-km |
| 2006 | 342,179 million passenger-km | 78,735 million passenger-km | 79,809 million passenger-km | 21,620 million passenger-km |
| 2005 | – | 74,944 million passenger-km | 76,884 million passenger-km | 21,151 million passenger-km |
| 2004 | – | 75,903 million passenger-km | 74,359 million passenger-km | 20,328 million passenger-km |
Flags: c confidential . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 32 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Germany (111,764 million passenger-km) and the lowest Kosovo (3 million passenger-km).
- Half of the countries are above 5,379 million passenger-km and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 20 countries and fell in 10.
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All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Germany 111,764 million passenger-km
- 2 France 110,618 million passenger-km
- 3 Italy 55,566 million passenger-km
- 4 Spain 38,274 million passenger-km
- 5 Poland 30,649 million passenger-km
- 6 Switzerland 23,522 million passenger-km
- 7 Netherlands 17,729 million passenger-km
- 8 Ukraine 16,571 million passenger-km
- 9 Hungary 16,145 million passenger-km
- 10 Austria 14,978 million passenger-km
- 11 Sweden 13,897 million passenger-km
- 12 Czechia 10,569 million passenger-km
- 13 Portugal 6,848 million passenger-km
- 14 Denmark 6,752 million passenger-km
- 15 Türkiye 5,860 million passenger-km
- 16 Finland 5,428 million passenger-km
- 17 Romania 5,329 million passenger-km
- 18 Norway 3,968 million passenger-km
- 19 Slovakia 3,599 million passenger-km
- 20 Ireland 2,812 million passenger-km
- 21 Bulgaria 1,456 million passenger-km
- 22 Croatia 1,229 million passenger-km
- 23 Slovenia 918 million passenger-km
- 24 Latvia 746 million passenger-km
- 25 Greece 718 million passenger-km
- 26 Luxembourg 547 million passenger-km
- 27 Lithuania 475 million passenger-km
- 28 Estonia 343 million passenger-km
- 29 Bosnia and Herzegovina 34 million passenger-km
- 30 Liechtenstein 31 million passenger-km
- 31 North Macedonia 19 million passenger-km
- 32 Kosovo 3 million passenger-km
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.