Rail passenger traffic – by region 2018-2021

In 2020, passengers traveled just under 24 billion passenger kilometers on railways in the Americas. The region trails behind Europe and APAC. Rail passenger transport collapses amid the COVID-19 pandemic Rail passenger numbers dropped in all world regions at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global passenger demand dropped from 4.2 trillion passenger kilometers to only 2.7 trillion passenger kilometers. In Europe rail passenger traffic dropped by nearly half before rising to around 59 percent of pre-pandemic traffic in 2021.High-speed rail continues to boom Despite the downturn in passenger numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world are continuing to expand their high-speed rail networks. As of 2022, there were thousands of kilometers of high-speed lines under construction globally. This boom is largely driven by China, which had over 13,000 kilometers of high-speed lines under construction in 2022.

于2020年，美洲地区的铁路客运量接近240亿乘客公里。该地区在欧洲和亚太地区之后。在COVID-19大流行期间，铁路客运量急剧下降。COVID-19大流行初期，全球客运需求从42万亿乘客公里下降至仅2.7万亿乘客公里。在欧洲，铁路客运量下降了近一半，至2021年回升至大流行前交通量的约59%。尽管在COVID-19大流行期间客运量有所下降，但世界各国仍在继续扩大其高速铁路网络。截至2022年，全球正在建设数千公里的高速铁路线路。这一增长主要得益于中国，2022年，中国正在建设的高速铁路线路超过13,000公里。