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DEFINITION:
Air freight is the volume of freight, express, and diplomatic bags carried on each flight stage (operation of an aircraft from takeoff to its next landing), measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.
CONTENTS
| # | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 37,357.64 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile) | 9,760.26 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 2 | Japan | 8,549.24 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 3 | Hong Kong | 7,763.87 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 4 | Germany | 7,722.13 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 5 | China | 7,579.4 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 6 | Singapore | 7,571.26 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 7 | South Korea | 7,432.57 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 8 | United Kingdom | 5,998.43 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 9 | France | 5,802.44 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 10 | Luxembourg | 5,149.69 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 11 | Netherlands | 4,893.97 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 12 | United Arab Emirates | 4,416.69 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| High income OECD countries average (profile) | 3,106.37 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| Non-religious countries average (profile) | 3,078.9 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 13 | Malaysia | 2,577.58 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 14 | Australia | 2,444.59 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 15 | Thailand | 2,002.42 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Cold countries average (profile) | 1,938.75 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| Eurozone average (profile) | 1,556.83 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 16 | Russia | 1,541.22 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 17 | Brazil | 1,530.68 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 18 | Canada | 1,526.82 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 19 | Italy | 1,365.13 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| NATO countries average (profile) | 1,315.23 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| European Union average (profile) | 1,236.4 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 20 | Israel | 1,213.47 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 21 | Switzerland | 1,109.64 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 22 | Colombia | 1,092.49 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 23 | Chile | 1,053.82 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 24 | Spain | 1,021.74 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 25 | Saudi Arabia | 1,021.45 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Europe average (profile) | 950.48 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 26 | South Africa | 923.38 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 27 | Qatar | 869.58 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Emerging markets average (profile) | 857.45 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 28 | New Zealand | 781.47 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 29 | India | 773.22 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 30 | Belgium | 705.13 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| OPEC countries average (profile) | 675.97 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| Former British colonies average (profile) | 562.84 million tons/km | 1990 | |||
| Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile) | 545.74 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 31 | Austria | 537.47 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 32 | Indonesia | 439.77 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 33 | Pakistan | 407.93 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 34 | Mexico | 390.42 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 35 | Bahrain | 382.98 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 36 | Turkey | 382.95 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 37 | Finland | 353.58 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| South Asia average (profile) | 341.22 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| Religious countries average (profile) | 330.09 million tons/km | 2000 | |||
| 38 | Philippines | 322.71 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 39 | Sri Lanka | 310.36 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 40 | Egypt | 286.95 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 41 | Sweden | 264.14 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 42 | Kenya | 253.16 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 43 | Kuwait | 241.62 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 44 | Oman | 236.77 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 45 | Portugal | 235.24 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 46 | Vietnam | 230.19 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 47 | Jordan | 223.58 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 48 | Mauritius | 211.71 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Muslim countries average (profile) | 199.42 million tons/km | 2001 | |||
| 49 | Denmark | 190.23 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 50 | Bangladesh | 183.49 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 51 | Norway | 182.08 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 52 | Macau | 169.8 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| South and Central Asia average (profile) | 148.99 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 53 | Peru | 138.69 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 54 | Brunei | 134.14 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 55 | Ethiopia | 132.6 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 56 | Argentina | 132.56 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Former Spanish colonies average (profile) | 130.59 million tons/km | 1996 | |||
| 57 | Iceland | 121.55 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Former Soviet republics average (profile) | 114.28 million tons/km | 2005 | |||
| 58 | Ireland | 107 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 59 | Iran | 98.22 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 60 | Fiji | 92.11 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 61 | Lebanon | 86.61 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Eastern Europe average (profile) | 80.02 million tons/km | 2003 | |||
| 62 | Uzbekistan | 71.58 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 63 | Poland | 71.28 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 64 | Angola | 68.11 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 65 | Yemen | 66.81 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 66 | Gabon | 65.54 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 67 | Greece | 64.07 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 68 | Morocco | 60.76 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 69 | Namibia | 60.43 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 70 | Cyprus | 47.96 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 71 | Trinidad and Tobago | 47.88 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| failed states average (profile) | 43.34 million tons/km | 1991 | |||
| 72 | Sudan | 43.12 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 73 | Iraq | 42.8 million tons/km | 1990 | ||
| 74 | Ukraine | 39.29 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 75 | Czech Republic | 38.76 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 76 | Panama | 37.23 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 77 | Algeria | 31.62 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 78 | Cuba | 30.88 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 79 | Uganda | 28.55 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 80 | Suriname | 27.08 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Former French colonies average (profile) | 26.65 million tons/km | 1999 | |||
| 81 | Seychelles | 25.81 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 82 | Bolivia | 25.3 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 83 | Cameroon | 24.4 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| Sub-Saharan Africa average (profile) | 24 million tons/km | 1987 | |||
| 84 | Zimbabwe | 22.25 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 85 | Syria | 22.12 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 86 | Hungary | 21.43 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 87 | Papua New Guinea | 21.11 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 88 | El Salvador | 20.8 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 89 | Tunisia | 18.05 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 90 | Honduras | 17.5 million tons/km | 1993 | ||
| =91 | Kazakhstan | 15.82 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =91 | Jamaica | 15.82 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 93 | Madagascar | 15.36 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 94 | Azerbaijan | 11.92 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 95 | Malta | 11.11 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 96 | Costa Rica | 10.35 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 97 | Turkmenistan | 10.09 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 98 | Nigeria | 10.03 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 99 | Sierra Leone | 8.06 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 100 | Afghanistan | 7.81 million tons/km | 2000 | ||
| 101 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 7.4 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Burkina Faso | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Congo, Republic of the | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Central African Republic | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Senegal | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Cote d'Ivoire | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Benin | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Togo | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Mali | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Chad | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| =102 | Niger | 7.36 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| 112 | Armenia | 7.04 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 113 | Nepal | 6.94 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 114 | Paraguay | 6.8 million tons/km | 1995 | ||
| 115 | Ghana | 6.65 million tons/km | 2004 | ||
| 116 | Tajikistan | 6.14 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 117 | Mongolia | 6.07 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 118 | Serbia and Montenegro | 6.01 million tons/km | 2004 | ||
| 119 | Ecuador | 5.44 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 120 | Romania | 5.16 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 121 | Somalia | 5 million tons/km | 1991 | ||
| 122 | Mozambique | 4.93 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 123 | Uruguay | 4.27 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 124 | Haiti | 3.9 million tons/km | 1991 | ||
| 125 | Bulgaria | 3.11 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 126 | Georgia | 2.75 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 127 | Burma | 2.72 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 128 | Slovenia | 2.64 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 129 | Guatemala | 2.6 million tons/km | 1999 | ||
| 130 | Dominican Republic | 2.5 million tons/km | 1994 | ||
| 131 | Laos | 2.48 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 132 | Croatia | 2.37 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 133 | Tanzania | 2.36 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 134 | North Korea | 2.2 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 135 | Venezuela | 2.11 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 136 | Kyrgyzstan | 2.03 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 137 | Latvia | 1.95 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 138 | Samoa | 1.81 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 139 | Vanuatu | 1.78 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 140 | Guyana | 1.6 million tons/km | 2001 | ||
| 141 | Cape Verde | 1.51 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 142 | Guinea | 1.4 million tons/km | 1999 | ||
| 143 | Malawi | 1.36 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 144 | Estonia | 1.3 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 145 | Lithuania | 1.29 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =146 | Cambodia | 1.2 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =146 | Rwanda | 1.2 million tons/km | 1991 | ||
| 148 | Belarus | 1.16 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =149 | Solomon Islands | 0.8 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =149 | Kiribati | 0.8 million tons/km | 1998 | ||
| 151 | Moldova | 0.62 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 152 | The Bahamas | 0.57 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 153 | Nicaragua | 0.54 million tons/km | 2000 | ||
| 154 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.53 million tons/km | 2003 | ||
| 155 | Barbados | 0.4 million tons/km | 1991 | ||
| 156 | Marshall Islands | 0.33 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 157 | Slovakia | 0.32 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 158 | Botswana | 0.31 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 159 | Libya | 0.29 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 160 | Swaziland | 0.26 million tons/km | 2000 | ||
| 161 | Bhutan | 0.25 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 162 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.19 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =163 | Albania | 0.1 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =163 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.1 million tons/km | 1997 | ||
| =163 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.1 million tons/km | 1996 | ||
| =163 | Lesotho | 0.1 million tons/km | 1993 | ||
| =163 | Liberia | 0.1 million tons/km | 1992 | ||
| =163 | Djibouti | 0.1 million tons/km | 1991 | ||
| =163 | Burundi | 0.1 million tons/km | 1987 | ||
| =163 | Comoros | 0.1 million tons/km | 1985 | ||
| 171 | Mauritania | 0.09 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| 172 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.06 million tons/km | 2005 | ||
| =173 | Tonga | 0.03 million tons/km | 2004 | ||
| =173 | Zambia | 0.03 million tons/km | 2003 | ||
| 175 | Maldives | 0.01 million tons/km | 2005 |
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Interesting observations about Transport > Air transport > Freight > Million tons per km
- United States has had the highest air transport > freight > million tons per km since 1970.
- Germany ranked first for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Europe in 2005.
- China ranked first for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Emerging markets in 2005.
- Hong Kong ranked first for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Hot countries in 2005.
- United Arab Emirates ranked first for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Muslim countries in 2005.
- United Kingdom ranked second for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst European Union in 2005.
- Japan ranked second for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst High income OECD countries in 2005.
- Russia ranked first for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Former Soviet republics in 2005.
- France ranked first for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Catholic countries in 2005.
- Italy ranked last for air transport > freight > million tons per km amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2005.
