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China vs India: Reported passenger kilometers

China
1.47 trillion passenger-kilometers
in 2019
India
1.16 trillion passenger-kilometers
in 2017
China rank
1st
India rank
2nd

Reported passenger kilometers over time

  • China
  • India
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How they compare

China currently reports 1.47 trillion passenger-kilometers against 1.16 trillion passenger-kilometers in India, a difference of 309.33 billion passenger-kilometers.

That makes China's figure about 1.3 times India's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1990 it was India ahead.

China ranks 1st and India ranks 2nd of 63 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Reported passenger kilometers
Unit
passenger-kilometers
Source
OECD (2023); OECD (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
63 places, 2,649 data points, 1970–2022
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Number of kilometers traveled by passengers by rail.