Air Passengers Carried by Country 2023

About This Dataset

This chart ranks countries by the number of passengers carried in 2023 by air carriers registered in that country, covering both domestic and international flights. Passengers are counted by the airline's country of registration, not by nationality or route.

✨ AI Insight

The United States lead with 941.6 million passengers, over 320 million more than China on 619.2 million, and together the two carry more than every other country on this list combined. The most surprising entry is Ireland in third with 192.5 million, a country of just five million people. This is an artefact of how the data is compiled: passengers are attributed to the airline's country of registration, and Ryanair, Europe's largest carrier by passenger numbers, is registered in Ireland. It illustrates why this measure reflects where airlines are incorporated rather than where people fly. Turkey's 125.9 million and Indonesia's 97 million show how quickly aviation has grown outside the traditional Western markets.

Source: World Bank (ICAO)

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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United States leads with 941,557,000 in 2023.

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Average value in 2023: 259,022,613 · median: 123,123,107.

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Gap in 2023: United States is 9.9× larger than Brazil.