Airlines registered in each nation, passengers carried, 2023.
Air transport passengers carried are ranked by nation for 2023. The comparison uses ten World Bank/ICAO rows, measuring passengers carried by airlines registered in each nation. The United States ranked first with 941.6 million passengers, followed by China at 619.2 million and Ireland at 192.5 million. Ireland ranks high because the measure follows airline registration rather than airport location or resident trips.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 941.6M | 2023 |
| 2 | China | 619.2M | 2023 |
| 3 | Ireland | 192.5M | 2023 |
| 4 | India | 180.4M | 2023 |
| 5 | Türkiye | 125.9M | 2023 |
| 6 | Japan | 120.3M | 2023 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 118.9M | 2023 |
| 8 | Russia | 98.9M | 2023 |
| 9 | Indonesia | 97.0M | 2023 |
| 10 | Spain | 94.1M | 2023 |
Source 1: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: World Bank
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Units: passengers carried
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Supports the WDI air-passenger indicator, ICAO source family and definition.
Source 2: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: Our World in Data
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Units: passengers carried
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Supports the 1970-2023 WDI/ICAO series range and downloadable processed source trail.
Source 3: World Bank World Development Indicators
Publisher: Statistics of the World
Dataset/table: World Development Indicators
Units: passengers carried
Date checked: 2026-05-26
Evidence: Provides an accessible 2023 ranking that attributes the air-passenger values to World Bank data.
The indicator follows airlines registered in an nation, not airport passenger traffic by location. The row ranking should not be read as airport throughput.
Ranked 2023 passengers carried by registered air carriers. The top-two support metric sums the United States and China, and the multiple divides the United States by Spain.
World Bank/ICAO is the source family, while the exact ranked public rows were cross-checked through accessible secondary renderings; the page should be read as a dated source-backed snapshot.
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