Countries with the Most Air Passengers 2021
About This Dataset
Countries with the Most Air Passengers 2021United States (666,153,000), China (440,301,216) and Russia (96,851,769) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 666,153,000 down to 24,572,955, a spread of 641,580,045. United States is 1.51 times China, the country in second place. 2 of the 20 reach half the leading figure, 333,076,500 or more. United States stood at 369,501,000 in 2020, so its figure rose by 296,652,000 over the year. 2020 was led by China, so the top place changed hands. Of the 20 in this table that also reported in 2020, 16 recorded a higher figure than the year before and 4 a lower one. The largest single move was United States, from 369,501,000 to 666,153,000. The chart shows the twenty highest of 155 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Key Findings
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2021 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Air Passengers Carried
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- 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 2021.
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