In 2024, people in the EU took 8.7 billion rail trips, amounting to a total of 444.5 billion passenger-kilometres (pkm).
Germany and France were the largest overall contributors to rail passenger transport performance, with 109.1 and 107.3 billion passenger-kilometres, respectively. Italy came next with 55.9 billion passenger-kilometres.
In contrast, 6 EU countries recorded less than 1 billion passenger-kilometres in 2024: Lithuania and Estonia (0.4 pkm each), Luxembourg (0.6 pkm), Latvia and Greece (0.7 pkm each) and Slovenia (0.9 pkm).
Source dataset: rail_pa_typepas
Relative to population, the highest ratio of passengers per capita in the EU countries was recorded in Luxembourg (46.2), followed by Austria (35.6) and Denmark (35.2). The lowest ratios were recorded in Greece (1.4), Lithuania (1.8) and Bulgaria (3.3).
Source datasets: rail_pa_typepas and demo_pjan
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on railway passenger transport statistics - quarterly and annual data
- Thematic section on transport
- Database on transport
- Webinar on transport statistics
- Key figures on European transport – 2025 edition
- Podcast on glossary for transport statistics
Methodological notes
- This article refers to rail passenger transport for main undertakings. Main undertakings are defined as those with a total volume of passenger transport of at least 100 000 000 passenger-km.
- Data for Belgium are confidential. Therefore, data for the entire EU are published only where the figures for Belgium cannot be calculated from EU totals. On this basis, data on passenger-kilometres exclude Belgium.
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| Zařazeno | čt 14.05.2026 11:05:00 |
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| Zdroj | Eurostat - news |
| Originál | ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20260514-1 |
| lang | en |
| Autor | Eurostat |
