Rail passenger transport, annual (million passenger-km)

Annual rail passenger transport in million passenger-kilometres, by reporting country, for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidates and EU aggregates. Eurostat dataset rail_pa_total ('Rail passenger transport'), filtered to freq=A and unit MIO_PKM (million passenger-kilometres). Each row is one (year, country): total passenger-km travelled by rail in the reporting country, counting national and international transport. Method: Eurostat compiles rail passenger statistics reported by national statistical offices; non-EU/EFTA/candidate countries (notably the UK) are dropped by the connector's commercial-use geo rule. Units: million passenger-kilometres (pkm). Caveats: countries without a rail network (e.g. Malta, Cyprus) report no values; values before 2019 include some estimation for countries with small networks; the EU27_2020, EU28 and EU27_2007 aggregates are included as published; recent years are provisional and revised. Coverage: ~36 geographic units after the geo rule, 2004 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat publishes the annual series each autumn. Sample use: join with 'eurostat-rail-freight-annual' to compare passenger and freight rail volumes in the same units.