Germany - Air transport, passengers carried

The value for Air transport, passengers carried in Germany was 25,758,450 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 117,222,800 in 2015 and a minimum value of 6,498,000 in 1970.

Definition: Air passengers carried include both domestic and international aircraft passengers of air carriers registered in the country.

Source: International Civil Aviation Organization, Civil Aviation Statistics of the World and ICAO staff estimates.

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Year Value
1970 6,498,000
1971 7,029,200
1972 7,919,100
1973 7,371,300
1974 8,886,900
1975 9,369,200
1976 10,418,600
1977 10,907,500
1978 11,709,800
1979 12,843,900
1980 13,046,400
1981 12,964,400
1982 12,755,000
1983 13,099,900
1984 14,051,800
1985 14,551,300
1986 15,174,000
1987 17,011,400
1988 17,894,900
1989 19,056,900
1990 22,146,900
1991 24,829,500
1992 27,577,800
1993 29,362,600
1994 32,465,300
1995 34,680,100
1996 40,118,400
1997 45,804,500
1998 49,279,800
1999 54,652,800
2000 57,962,860
2001 56,389,360
2002 61,889,680
2003 72,693,120
2004 82,099,660
2005 90,788,850
2006 99,647,310
2007 106,101,700
2008 107,941,600
2009 103,396,700
2010 97,330,740
2011 107,042,800
2012 105,978,500
2013 109,062,300
2014 112,353,100
2015 117,222,800
2016 116,713,600
2017 114,160,700
2018 109,796,200
2019 109,633,800
2020 25,758,450

Development Relevance: Transport infrastructure - highways, railways, ports and waterways, and airports and air traffic control systems - and the services that flow from it are crucial to the activities of households, producers, and governments. Because performance indicators vary widely by transport mode and focus (whether physical infrastructure or the services flowing from that infrastructure), highly specialized and carefully specified indicators are required to measure a country's transport infrastructure. The air transport industry a vital engine of global socio-economic growth. It is of vital importance for economic development, creating direct and indirect employment, supporting tourism and local businesses, and stimulating foreign investment and international trade. Economic growth, technological change, market liberalization, the growth of low cost carriers, airport congestion, oil prices and other trends affect commercial aviation throughout the world.

Limitations and Exceptions: The air transport data represent the total (international and domestic) scheduled traffic carried by the air carriers registered in a country. Countries submit air transport data to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on the basis of standard instructions and definitions issued by ICAO. In many cases, however, the data include estimates by ICAO for nonreporting carriers. Where possible, these estimates are based on previous submissions supplemented by information published by the air carriers, such as flight schedules. The data cover the air traffic carried on scheduled services, but changes in air transport regulations in Europe have made it more difficult to classify traffic as scheduled or nonscheduled. Thus recent increases shown for some European countries may be due to changes in the classification of air traffic rather than actual growth. In the case of multinational air carriers owned by partner States, traffic within each partner State is shown separately as domestic and all other traffic as international. "Foreign" cabotage traffic (i.e. traffic carried between city-pairs in a State other than the one where the reporting carrier has its principal place of business) is shown as international traffic. A technical stop does not result in any flight stage being classified differently than would have been the case had the technical stop not been made. For countries with few air carriers or only one, the addition or discontinuation of a home-based air carrier may cause significant changes in air traffic. Data for transport sectors are not always internationally comparable. Unlike for demographic statistics, national income accounts, and international trade data, the collection of infrastructure data has not been "internationalized."

Statistical Concept and Methodology: For statistical uses, departures are equal to the number of landings made or flight stages flown. A flight stage is the operation of an aircraft from take-off to its next landing. A flight stage is classified as either international or domestic. International flight stage is one or both terminals in the territory of a State, other than the State in which the air carrier has its principal place of business. Domestic flight stage is not classifiable as international. Domestic flight stages include all flight stages flown between points within the domestic boundaries of a State by an air carrier whose principal place of business is in that State. Flight stages between a State and territories belonging to it, as well as any flight stages between two such territories, should be classified as domestic. This applies even though a stage may cross international waters or over the territory of another State. The number of passengers carried is obtained by counting each passenger on a particular flight (with one flight number) once only and not repeatedly on each individual stage of that flight, with a single exception that a passenger flying on both the international and domestic stages of the same flight should be counted as both a domestic and an international passenger.

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation