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China vs Japan: Reported passenger kilometers

China
1.47 trillion passenger-kilometers
in 2019
Japan
289.89 billion passenger-kilometers
in 2021
China rank
1st
Japan rank
3rd

Reported passenger kilometers over time

  • China
  • Japan
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How they compare

China currently reports 1.47 trillion passenger-kilometers against 289.89 billion passenger-kilometers in Japan, a difference of 1.18 trillion passenger-kilometers.

That makes China's figure about 5.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 33 shared years of data; in 1978 it was Japan ahead.

China ranks 1st and Japan ranks 3rd 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.