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Airport passengers this year

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Putting it in perspective

Per second
310
Per minute
18,632
Per hour
1,117,955
Per day
26,830,937
Still to come this year
2,506,526,994

Counted in passengers.Airports count arriving and departing passengers, so one trip is counted at more than one airport.

How this number is made

Method
Annual flow, spread evenly
Basis
Actual for 2025
Record
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Source
ACI World, Global airport passenger traffic reaches record 9.8 billion in 2025, Airports Council International World reports | ACI World (23 Sep 2026)
“Global airports carried a record 9.8 billion passengers in 2025, Airports Council International (ACI) World reported today, while air cargo volumes also reached an all-time high.”
  1. Step 01

    Take ACI World’s figure for 2025: 9.8 billion.

  2. Step 02

    Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 311 passengers per second.

  3. Step 03

    Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.

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Why this can't be exact
Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.

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StatOrigin. (2026). Airport passengers this year [Live counter, extrapolated from ACI World]. Retrieved 29 Sep 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/airport-passengers

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