Air passengers carried by country (monthly)
Monthly air passengers carried (embarked + disembarked) at airports, summed to reporting country, for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset avia_paoa ('Air passenger transport by reporting country'), filtered to monthly frequency, passengers carried, all schedules and all transport coverage. Each row is one (month, country): passengers carried at that country's airports. Method: Eurostat compiles airport returns; rep_airp codes ('<CC>_<ICAO>') are aggregated to their country prefix and non-EU/EFTA/candidate countries are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: passengers (count). Caveats: a passenger changing planes is counted at each airport; recent months are provisional and revised. Coverage: 1993-01 to the present, monthly. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (month, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), month. Cadence: refreshed monthly. Sample use: filter country_code='ESP' to track Spanish air traffic over time.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Rows
- 8,915
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- transport
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| month | string | Year and month of the observation (first day of month), from the 'time' dimension. |
| country_code | string | Reporting country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (mapped from Eurostat's alpha-2 codes). The maritime dataset also carries the provider aggregate 'EU27_2020' verbatim. |
| country_name | string | Canonical English country name (hub.normalize), or the Eurostat-published label for the EU27_2020 aggregate. |
| passengers | float | Air passengers carried (embarked + disembarked), summed over the country's reporting airports, from the 'tra_meas' indicator PAS_CRD ('Passengers carried'). Count of passengers. (unit: passengers) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| month | country_code | country_name | passengers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-01-01 | AUT | Austria | 962,926 |
| 2002-02-01 | AUT | Austria | 995,178 |
| 2002-03-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,213,563 |
| 2002-04-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,171,922 |
| 2002-05-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,342,162 |
| 2002-06-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,519,121 |
| 2002-07-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,585,580 |
| 2002-08-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,607,875 |
| 2002-09-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,545,482 |
| 2002-10-01 | AUT | Austria | 1,349,015 |
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_aviation_passengers_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_aviation_passengers_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_aviation_passengers_monthly
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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Eurostat. (2026). Air passengers carried by country (monthly) [Data set]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_aviation_passengers_monthly
@misc{dz_eurostat_eurostat_aviation_passengers_mo_latest,
title = {{Air passengers carried by country (monthly)}},
author = {{Eurostat}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_aviation_passengers_monthly}},
note = {Latest version; accessed 2026-09-23}
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