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Share of global passenger kilometers from international aviation, 2018

Revenue Passenger Kilometers (RPK) measures the number of kilometers traveled by paying passengers. It is calculated as the number of revenue passengers
multiplied by the total distance traveled. International aviation is here allocated to the country of departure.

0No data0%0.1%0.5%1%2.5%5%>7.5%
World

Source: Calculated by Our World in Data based on Graver et al. (2019).

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