Busiest Metro Systems in the World by Annual Ridership 2024
Key Findings
🏆
Shanghai Metro leads in Annual ridership (million passenger journeys) with 3,773.80 in 2024.
📊
Average Annual ridership (million passenger journeys) in 2024: 2,155 · median: 1,770.
↔️
Gap in 2024: Shanghai Metro is 3.2× larger than Mexico City Metro.
About This Dataset
Busiest Metro Systems in the World by Annual Ridership 2024
Annual ridership counts every passenger journey made on a metro system in a year. This chart ranks the busiest metro systems in the world by ridership in 2024, in millions; systems whose most recent published figure is for a different year are not included.
Analysis
Shanghai Metro carried 3,773.8 million passengers in 2024, the most of any metro system, ahead of Beijing Subway with 3,621.3 million. 10 of the 15 systems shown are in China. Together they carried 32,325.9 million journeys in 2024; the smallest total on this chart, Mexico City Metro, was 1,172 million.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of metro systems
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2024 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Annual ridership (million passenger journeys)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
Was this chart useful?
⚑ Spotted an error in this data? Report it
Cite this chart
Using this chart in an article, report, class or website? Please cite it and link to this page.
Related Charts
More statistics on similar topics
Related
2026
424.0
New York City Subway
View Chart
1 month ago