Air passengers carried
RecordSTO-01M2HY9T62-B5SP11A28T-N24FQN
Global · 2024
Air passengers carried worldwide was 4.7 billion in 2024 (ICAO).
Air passengers carried: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- ICAO
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- The World of Air Transport in 2024
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
According to ICAO's preliminary compilation of annual global statistics, the total number of passengers carried on scheduled services increased to 4.7 billion in 2024, which is 7.9 per cent higher than the previous year, while with the number of departures increasing to 37.4 million in 2024, a 5.1 per cent increase.
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APA
International Civil Aviation Organization. (2025). Annual Report 2024 - The World of Air Transport in 2024. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.icao.int/about-icao/AnnualReport2024/world-air-transport-2024. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQN
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Civil Aviation Organization. "Annual Report 2024 - The World of Air Transport in 2024." 2025, https://www.icao.int/about-icao/AnnualReport2024/world-air-transport-2024. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQN.
- Chicago
- International Civil Aviation Organization. "Annual Report 2024 - The World of Air Transport in 2024." 2025. https://www.icao.int/about-icao/AnnualReport2024/world-air-transport-2024. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQN.
- BibTeX
- @misc{icao2025airlinen24fqn, author = {{International Civil Aviation Organization}}, title = {Annual Report 2024 - The World of Air Transport in 2024}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQN}, note = {Original source: https://www.icao.int/about-icao/AnnualReport2024/world-air-transport-2024. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Civil Aviation Organization · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Annual Report 2024 - The World of Air Transport in 2024
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 1 September 2025
- Locator
- The World of Air Transport in 2024
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Public
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FQN