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Transport > Air transport Stats: compare key data on China & India

Definitions

  • Freight > Million ton-km: Air freight is the volume of freight, express, and diplomatic bags carried on each flight stage (operation of an aircraft from takeoff to its next landing), measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled."
  • Freight > Million tons per km: Air freight is the volume of freight, express, and diplomatic bags carried on each flight stage (operation of an aircraft from takeoff to its next landing), measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.
  • Passengers carried: Air passengers carried include both domestic and international aircraft passengers of air carriers registered in the country.
  • Passengers carried > Per capita: Air passengers carried include both domestic and international aircraft passengers of air carriers registered in the country. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Registered carrier departures worldwide: Registered carrier departures worldwide are domestic takeoffs and takeoffs abroad of air carriers registered in the country.
  • Registered carrier departures worldwide > Per capita: Registered carrier departures worldwide are domestic takeoffs and takeoffs abroad of air carriers registered in the country. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
STAT China India HISTORY
Freight > Million ton-km 11,386.06
Ranked 3rd. 9 times more than India
1,233.94
Ranked 19th.

Freight > Million tons per km 7,579.4 million tons/km
Ranked 5th. 10 times more than India
773.22 million tons/km
Ranked 29th.

Passengers carried 191 million
Ranked 3rd. 4 times more than India
49.88 million
Ranked 12th.

Passengers carried > Per capita 143.6 per 1,000 people
Ranked 61st. 3 times more than India
43.45 per 1,000 people
Ranked 82nd.

Registered carrier departures worldwide 1.85 million
Ranked 3rd. 3 times more than India
592,292
Ranked 11th.

Registered carrier departures worldwide > Per capita 1.39 per 1,000 people
Ranked 69th. 3 times more than India
0.516 per 1,000 people
Ranked 85th.

SOURCES: International Civil Aviation Organisation, Civil Aviation Statistics of the World and ICAO staff estimates.; World Development Indicators database

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