Air transport - Air transport freight

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The United States of America is the top country by air transport freight in the world. As of 2021, air transport freight in the United States of America was 46,005 million ton-km that accounts for 20.98% of the world's air transport freight. The top 5 countries (others are China, Qatar, Republic of Korea, and the United Arab Emirates) account for 51.77% of it. The world's total air transport freight was estimated at 219,227 million ton-km in 2021.

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.

Air transport freight (million ton-km)

	1970	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Australia	235	1,222	1,731	2,445	2,938	2,847	2,732	1,985	1,926	1,907	1,869	1,983	2,028	1,931	1,317	1,245
Brunei Darussalam		10	140	134	149	150	128	128	115	115	124	133	129	122	40	23
Cambodia	0			1	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	1	1	1
China		818	3,900	7,579	17,194	16,765	15,569	16,054	17,823	19,806	21,305	23,324	25,256	25,395	19,264	20,961
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.		3	2	2	2	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fiji		5	91	92	77	85	91	69	79	84	87	103	107	109	22	6
Hong Kong SAR, China			5,112	7,764	10,373	10,054	9,468	9,396	10,826	11,294	11,409	12,415	12,677	11,739	8,085	9,028
Indonesia	14	459	409	440	666	754	880	768	902	759	975	1,052	1,132	982	675	773
Japan	380	5,069	8,672	8,549	7,699	6,546	7,046	7,716	8,662	8,662	9,361	10,685	9,421	8,919	7,842	10,947
Kiribati		1											0	0
Korea, Rep.	6	2,459	7,651	7,433	12,943	12,382	12,291	11,113	11,125	11,294	10,806	11,512	11,519	10,664	12,457	15,370
Lao PDR	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Macao SAR, China			22	170	37	25	19	20	24	25	29	33	32	26	9	1
Malaysia	9	574	1,864	2,578	2,565	2,193	1,944	2,162	2,193	2,006	1,150	1,455	1,359	1,379	817	1,119
Marshall Islands		3	0	0								0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia			8	6	4	7	9	9	13	8	8	8	8	7	1	0
Myanmar	2	1	1	3	2	4	4	3	4	3	5	5	5	8	1	18
Nauru					6	8	8	7	7	8	10	8	10	2	3	3
New Zealand	36	325	817	781	469	893	975	935	999	1,155	1,232	1,336	1,349	1,208	774	318
Papua New Guinea		15	22	21	29	32	29	33	33	27	27	29	31	31	32	38
Philippines	22	316	290	323	460	470	533	326	577	605	665	753	836	927	360	530
Samoa			2	2					0	0	0		0	0	0	0
Singapore	9	1,653	6,005	7,571	7,121	7,301	6,899	6,360	6,052	6,332	6,696	5,063	6,947	6,412	3,020	3,667
Solomon Islands			1	1	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	0
Thailand	9	661	1,713	2,002	2,939	2,871	2,758	2,640	2,525	2,137	2,160	2,512	2,666	2,328	684	604
Tonga			0
Vanuatu		0	2	2	0	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	0
Vietnam	5		117	230	427	475	504	497	450	384	451	453	763	1,023	572	677
Albania			0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0
Armenia			9	7	6	4	3	1	0				0	0	0	1
Austria	6	54	408	537	358	383	322	326	370	351	388	391	374	320	75	125
Azerbaijan			47	12	8	10	13	18	385	687	733	62	44	1,620	2,030	3,174
Belarus			2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	2	2
Belgium	184	656	1,017	705	1,067	1,241	1,370	1,561	1,596	1,480	1,505	1,574	1,285	1,353	1,265	1,827
Bosnia and Herzegovina			1		0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0
Bulgaria	5	8	6	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	0
Croatia			4	4	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
Cyprus	2	34	43	48	36	17	9	12	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czechia	12	15	32	39	18	17	11	20	31	27	25	28	25	23	4	0
Denmark	63	124	199
Estonia			1	1	4	5	2	0	1	1	0		0	0
Finland	21	135	281	354	729	740	691	661	667	713	762	852	958	1,067	480	750
France	475	3,996	5,224	5,802	5,080	5,069	4,626	4,327	4,151	4,098	4,155	4,261	4,444	4,523	2,468	4,107
Georgia			2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Germany	485	3,994	7,128	7,722	7,487	7,717	7,237	7,336	7,184	6,986	6,943	7,902	7,970	7,764	9,166	11,533
Greece	31	113	130	64	5	4	2	1	19	26	24	24	22	24	10	12
Hungary	6	6	51	21	6	6	0	0					0	0
Iceland	11	36	100	122	79	82	98	99	96	108	128	167	164	139	135	149
Ireland	58	128	168	107	138	123	123	118	126	139	118	154	169	175	132	86
Italy	275	1,171	1,748	1,365	785	760	795	893	989	945	1,083	1,437	1,418	1,345	979	1,151
Kazakhstan			12	16	42	51	54	58	45	38	39	50	50	50	24	31
Kyrgyz Republic			4	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Latvia			1	2	5	5	4	4	4	2	2	3	4	5	4	2
Lithuania			2	1	3	2	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Luxembourg			3,523	5,150	4,573	4,654	4,403	5,225	5,753	6,309	6,878	7,321	7,323	7,188	7,345	8,589
North Macedonia			1	0
Moldova			1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	1
Monaco			0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0
Montenegro				0	0	0	0	0			0	0	0	0		0
Netherlands	377	2,129	4,367	4,894	6,444	6,347	6,015	5,754	5,726	5,293	4,746	5,855	5,887	5,656	4,145	4,346
Norway	64	130	201
Poland	6	49	78	71	77	39	92	98	121	115	156	222	271	318	141	215
Portugal	37	167	225	235	365	356	321	319	349	344	327	422	454	537	280	500
Romania	7	13	12	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	4	3	3	3	1	2
Russian Federation			1,041	1,541	3,532	3,900	4,132	4,249	4,414	4,761	5,863	6,845	6,811	6,481	4,315	5,888
Serbia				5	2	2	1	1	3	3	5	7	18	13	8	14
Slovak Republic			0	0	0	0	0	0						0
Slovenia			4	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	0
Spain	91	760	879	1,022	1,236	1,313	1,132	958	963	1,035	1,068	1,079	1,119	1,191	494	851
Sweden	98	191	289		473	495	516	592	686	594	690	762	991	986	304	349
Switzerland	169	929	1,972	1,110	1,282	1,355	1,371	1,444	1,509	1,409	1,533	1,581	1,841	1,641	843	1,231
Tajikistan			2	4	1	2	2	0	3	5	5	3	2	3	2	1
Turkiye	5	101	385	383	1,149	1,544	1,934	2,296	2,630	2,882	3,494	4,800	5,949	6,816	6,870	9,338
Turkmenistan			12	10	6	3	3	0	4	5	6	19	17	17	4	1
Ukraine			12	39	69	81	76	14	22	38	40	54	75	76	14	28
United Kingdom	517	3,825	5,161	5,998	6,083	6,280	6,244	6,032	5,975	5,423	5,513	5,916	6,198	5,851	3,667	4,097
Uzbekistan			80	72	154	154	111	99	110	114	112	127	89	70	20	38
Antigua and Barbuda		0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
Argentina	48	214	297	133	193	192	180	269	262	244	254	305	312	280	81	88
Barbados		0
Belize					0	0	0	1	3	2	3	4	0	0
Bolivia	2	8	15	25	11	17	12	8	9	10	9	9	14	23	18	20
Brazil	164	1,082	1,728	1,531	1,302	1,294	1,363	1,637	1,597	1,494	1,514	1,737	1,846	1,521	1,210	1,294
Chile	41	419	1,312	1,054	1,400	1,422	1,527	1,512	1,553	1,392	1,441	1,238	1,226	1,232	1,458	1,284
Colombia	75	464	601	1,092	955	968	918	1,222	1,315	1,317	1,143	1,274	1,350	1,548	1,497	1,605
Costa Rica	9	39	79	10	16	17	16	14	12	9	6	11	11	11	2	2
Cuba	9	19	49	31	0	18	17	17	17	21	26	48	18	14	13	22
Dominican Republic	4	70			0	0	0	0					0	0
Ecuador	9	63	15	5	130	126	121	112	82	64	60	58	64	51	11	4
El Salvador	11	5	31	21	11	15	17	16	16	14	13	14	11	13	7	11
Guatemala	6	9			4	4	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Guyana	1	3	2		1	1	1	0	0				0	0	0	0
Haiti		4												0
Honduras	4	4			2	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	1		1
Jamaica	3	19	29	16	0	0	0	0		1	5	3	5	0
Mexico	37	143	310	390	909	775	764	677	618	714	761	929	1,063	1,073	733	963
Nicaragua	1	4	1
Panama	4	3	22	37	72	67	80	148	134	122	126	46	65	95	73	150
Paraguay	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	0	0
Peru	22	26	54	139	84	107	122	335	295	330	276	317	313	340	96	258
Suriname		15	30	27	24	23	25	30	29	22	23	23	33	32	27	19
Bahamas, The		0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	10	15	45	48	17	18	18	45	44	43	21	37	41	47	32	59
Uruguay	0	3	14	4
Venezuela, RB	59	113	33	2	1	8	6	5	4	4	4	3	0	0	3	0
Algeria	3	15	13	32	16	15	15	18	22	22	22	25	28	26	16	13
Bahrain	1	44	209		504	418	338	266	258	240	387	390	421	311	192	523
Djibouti		0
Egypt, Arab Rep.	15	144	278	287	417	333	356	387	419	377	374	404	438	483	439	589
Iran, Islamic Rep.	8	114	74	98	97	86	66	84	96	96	139	326	170	152	202	274
Iraq	2	43			12	15	15	11	11	1	1	16	16	0
Israel	98	832	886	1,213	856	883	811	802	651	759	784	913	995	889	817	716
Jordan	1	223	204	224	202	196	188	172	172	169	144	159	176	154	75	103
Kuwait	13	145	243	242	335	278	267	246	268	216	223	310	392	365	120	200
Lebanon	143	167	85	87	48	48	51	70	60	54	46	53	57	52	19	22
Libya	1	10	0	0	8	6	2	4	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	14
Malta	2	5	14	11	7	6	5	4	3	3	2	3	5	7	3	3
Morocco	5	32	63	61	65	41	39	43	47	53	54	78	98	102	46	59
Oman		44	152		107	172	241	251	292	412	425	435	510	567	52	254
Qatar		44	244	870	2,946	3,637	4,307	4,961	5,993	7,563	9,206	10,970	12,667	12,740	13,544	15,862
Saudi Arabia	5	610	1,000	1,021	1,325	1,501	1,815	1,694	1,600	827	834	868	1,085	2,043	582	679
Syrian Arab Republic	1	18	21	22	5	6	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
Tunisia	1	19	21	18	15	13	16	15	13	10	8	12	13	13	7	6
United Arab Emirates		145	1,456	4,642	9,774	10,435	12,033	14,082	15,527	15,963	16,139	16,616	15,963	14,766	12,172	15,301
Yemen, Rep.	0	12	32	67	0	0	0	0					3	0	2	2
Canada	371	1,385	1,896	1,527	1,957	1,980	1,960	1,946	2,084	2,075	2,246	2,841	2,482	3,109	2,306	3,240
United States	5,151	14,791	30,172	37,358	39,353	39,622	39,111	37,114	38,225	37,866	38,658	41,592	42,985	42,498	40,793	46,005
Afghanistan	8	9	8		108	109	117	85	34	33	29	21	30	20	20	12
Bangladesh		70	194	183	164	160	152	225	208	57	54	62	51	169	118	84
Bhutan			0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0
India	96	663	548	774	1,631	1,703	1,579	1,734	1,851	1,834	1,894	2,407	2,704	1,938	875	908
Maldives			13	0						6	7	8	0	0	2	2
Nepal	0	11	17	7	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	9	6	14	17
Pakistan	70	421	340	408	333	298	286	293	205	183	175	215	218	193	96	76
Sri Lanka	2	93	256	310	339	365	405	385	385	382	403	398	436	394	226	412
Angola		40	61	68	48	51	71	70	66	46	44	67	78	68	29	31
Benin	6	18	12		0	0	0	1	1	1	0
Botswana		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0	1		0
Burkina Faso	6	18	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
Cabo Verde		1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2				0	0	0	0
Cameroon	6	13	42	24	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Central African Republic	6	18
Chad	6	18			0	1	1	0	0
Congo, Rep.	6	18	12		2	1	2	2	2	4	5	5	5	4
Cote d'Ivoire	6	18	12		15	3	0	5	5	1	1	5	4	9	4	4
Congo, Dem. Rep.	14	57			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Equatorial Guinea		0			0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Eritrea													0	0
Ethiopia	15	67	78	133	407	506	704	791	950	1,229	1,500	2,076	2,089	2,450	2,897	3,717
Gabon	6	26	58	66	0	0	0	0
Ghana	3	16	40		5	4	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
Guinea	0	0
Guinea-Bissau		0
Kenya	9	52	77	253	280	191	235	258	249	233	258	276	295	321	113	300
Lesotho		0
Liberia		0
Madagascar	7	30	27	15	24	21	25	35	31	26	12	15	16	16	5	3
Malawi	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	2		12		8	9	5	1	0
Mauritania	6	18	13	0	0	0	0	0					0	0
Mauritius		64	183	212	179	178	172	172	193	169	157	196	234	214	62	87
Mozambique		9	7	5	6	8	5	6	5	5	4	4	5	6	2	3
Namibia			76	0	0	1	1	1	34	30	21	22	26	7	2	0
Niger	6	18	12		0	0	1	1								1
Nigeria	5	24	9	10	0	0	0	12	12	25	24	22	20	2	2	2
Rwanda					3	6	17	20	21				0	0
Sao Tome and Principe			0	0									1	1	1	1
Senegal	6	18	12	0	0	3	5	4	4	3	0	0	0	2	3	3
Seychelles		10	20	26	36	32	6	26	32	19	20	29	8	2	1	1
Sierra Leone		2	9	8	0	0	0
Somalia	0	9			0	2	1	1	1				0	0
South Africa	57	179	688	923	1,026	1,073	1,175	1,123	1,043	893	767	833	697	565	102	15
Sudan	2	13	37	43	15	23	24	12	12	7	5	6	1	0		26
Eswatini		0	0										0	0	0	0
Tanzania	9	1	3	2	1	1	2	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	4
Gambia, The					0	0	0	2	2	0			0	0
Togo	6	18	12		53	53	54	32	41	7	8	9	11	15	10	18
Uganda	9	22	21	29	1	1	1	1	1	0	0		0	0
Zambia	5	30	0	0	0	0	0	93	83	79	80	82	75	79	70	75
Zimbabwe	1	65	163	22	25	45	47	33	1	1	1	1	1	0	10	3

Air transport freight (million ton-km)

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