Countries with the Most Air Passengers 2023
About This Dataset
Countries with the Most Air Passengers 2023
Countries ranked by air passengers carried in 2023, using World Bank figures for the 149 countries that reported that year. United States leads on 941,557,000, ahead of China (619,215,886) and Ireland (192,528,432). Passengers carried on flights by carriers registered in the country, counting domestic and international journeys. Large domestic markets therefore rank far above their share of world travel.
Analysis
United States (941,557,000), China (619,215,886) and Ireland (192,528,432) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 941,557,000 down to 55,114,832, a spread of 886,442,168. United States is 1.52 times China, the country in second place. 2 of the 20 reach half the leading figure, 470,778,500 or more. The chart shows the twenty highest of 149 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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United States leads in Air Passengers Carried with 941,557,000 in 2023.
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Average Air Passengers Carried in 2023: 167,178,750 · median: 94,750,003.
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Gap in 2023: United States is 17.1× larger than Vietnam.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2023 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Air Passengers Carried
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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