Railways, passengers carried in Brazil
Brazil: Railways, passengers carried was 16,486 million passenger-km in 2019. ▲ Rising
Railways, passengers carried in Brazil, 2013–2019
Source: Railisa Database (UIC), International Union of Railways (UIC). Measured in million passenger-km.
Analysis
Brazil recorded 16,486 million passenger-km for railways, passengers carried in 2019. That is the highest value across all 7 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 8.5% over ten years.
That places Brazil 14th out of 101 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near Brazil
- 11 Pakistan 24,903 million passenger-km compare
- 12 United Kingdom 24,188 million passenger-km compare
- 13 Spain 17,002 million passenger-km compare
- 15 Poland 15,844 million passenger-km compare
- 16 Switzerland 14,308 million passenger-km compare
- 17 United States 12,460 million passenger-km compare
More infrastructure data for Brazil
- Fixed telephone subscriptions 10.63 per 100 people (2024)
- Fixed telephone subscriptions 22.55 million (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions 101.93 per 100 people (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions 216.08 million (2024)
- Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide 791,523 (2023)
- Air transport, freight 1,387 million ton-km (2023)
- Air transport, passengers carried 95.40 million (2023)
- Renewable internal freshwater resources, total 5,661 billion cubic meters (2022)
- Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita 26,918 cubic meters (2022)
- Individuals using the Internet 84.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is railways, passengers carried in Brazil?
- Railways, passengers carried in Brazil was 16,486 million passenger-km in 2019, according to Railisa Database (UIC), International Union of Railways (UIC).
- What is the highest railways, passengers carried recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 16,486 million passenger-km in 2019.
- What is the lowest railways, passengers carried recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,191 million passenger-km in 2013.
- How does Brazil rank for railways, passengers carried?
- Brazil ranks 14th out of 101 countries with data for 2019.
- Is railways, passengers carried rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil data come from?
- The figures come from Railisa Database (UIC), International Union of Railways (UIC), published as part of Railways, passengers carried (million passenger-km). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Passengers carried by railway are the number of passengers transported by rail multiplied by kilometers traveled.