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Top 10 Countries with the Most Air Passengers

Where the most people fly, by passengers carried by each country’s airlines.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by air passengers carried
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data

  1. United States

    Data year 2024

    941.6M passengers

    No change

  2. China

    Data year 2024

    619.2M passengers

    No change

  3. Ireland

    Data year 2024

    192.5M passengers

    No change
  1. 4IndiaData year 2024180.4M passengersNo change
  2. 5TurkiyeData year 2024125.9M passengersNo change
  3. 6JapanData year 2024120.3M passengersNo change
  4. 7United KingdomData year 2024118.9M passengersNo change
  5. 8Russian FederationData year 202498.9M passengersNo change
  6. 9IndonesiaData year 202497M passengersNo change
  7. 10BrazilData year 202495.4M passengersNo change
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  1. 11SpainData year 202494.1M passengersNo change
  2. 12United Arab EmiratesData year 202491.1M passengersNo change
  3. 13CanadaData year 202488.6M passengersNo change
  4. 14GermanyData year 202480.2M passengersNo change
  5. 15MexicoData year 202478.8M passengersNo change
  6. 16Korea, Rep.Data year 202276.3M passengersNo change
  7. 17AustraliaData year 202469M passengersNo change
  8. 18FranceData year 202464.6M passengersNo change
  9. 19HungaryData year 202455.6M passengersNo change
  10. 20Viet NamData year 202455.1M passengersNo change
  11. 21ThailandData year 202451.9M passengersNo change
  12. 22Saudi ArabiaData year 202448M passengersNo change
  13. 23SingaporeData year 202447.5M passengersNo change
  14. 24MalaysiaData year 202446.7M passengersNo change
  15. 25AustriaData year 202246M passengersNo change
  16. 26ColombiaData year 202042.4M passengersNo change
  17. 27PhilippinesData year 202441.5M passengersNo change
  18. 28NetherlandsData year 202441.4M passengersNo change
  19. 29QatarData year 202437.7M passengersNo change
  20. 30SwitzerlandData year 202427.7M passengersNo change
  21. 31Hong Kong SAR, ChinaData year 202425.7M passengersNo change
  22. 32ChileData year 202521.3M passengersNo change
  23. 33ArgentinaData year 202421.1M passengersNo change
  24. 34ItalyData year 202420.3M passengersNo change
  25. 35SwedenData year 202219.6M passengersNo change
  26. 36GreeceData year 202219.1M passengersNo change
  27. 37PortugalData year 202218.3M passengersNo change
  28. 38Iran, Islamic Rep.Data year 202418.1M passengersNo change
  29. 39PeruData year 202317.7M passengersNo change
  30. 40Egypt, Arab Rep.Data year 202316.7M passengersNo change
  31. 41PanamaData year 202415.8M passengersNo change
  32. 42South AfricaData year 202415.5M passengersNo change
  33. 43EthiopiaData year 202415.3M passengersNo change
  34. 44New ZealandData year 202415M passengersNo change
  35. 45KazakhstanData year 202411.9M passengersNo change
  36. 46BelgiumData year 202211.4M passengersNo change
  37. 47FinlandData year 202210.8M passengersNo change
  38. 48KuwaitData year 20249.5M passengersNo change
  39. 49MoroccoData year 20249.4M passengersNo change
  40. 50PolandData year 20248.8M passengersNo change

How this list is ranked

Air passengers carried (World Bank indicator IS.AIR.PSGR), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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