Passenger traffic of railways | Italy – yearly data, chart and table

Passenger traffic of railways of Italy in 2021 amounted to 27 693.00 million passenger-km, which is 24.36% more than in 2020, when it was  22 269.00 million passenger-km. This is the first year of growth after a decline. According to the International Union of Railways (UIC) statistics, since 1995, the volume of railways traffic has decreased in 1.58 times. The lowest passenger traffic of railways was recorded in 2020, with a value of 22 269.00 million passenger-km. The maximum in Italy was in 2019, when it reached 56 586.00 million passenger-km. Passenger-km is a standard unit of measurement used in transport statistics to express the total passenger traffic. It combines both the number of passengers and the distance travelled into a single metric. The data from UIC is based on voluntary reporting by railway companies, and can show drastic increases or decreases for some of the years due to lack of reporting by some of the companies in that country.