Passengers carried by railway are the number of passengers transported by rail times kilometers traveled.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 1,142.0 | 929.0 | 1,045.0 | 1,040.0 | 1,141.0 | 1,186.0 | 1,269.0 | 1,337.0 | 1,550.0 | 1,602.0 | 1,454.0 | 348.0 | ||
| Djibouti | 145.0 | 145.0 | ||||||||||||
| Egypt | 73,565.0 | 40,800.0 | ||||||||||||
| Morocco | 1,956.0 | 2,987.0 | 4,398.0 | 4,819.0 | 5,114.0 | 5,397.0 | 5,449.0 | 5,507.0 | 5,208.0 | 4,923.0 | 4,475.0 | 4,803.0 | 2,409.0 | 4,464.0 |
| Tunisia | 1,257.0 | 1,317.0 | 1,534.0 | 1,113.6 | 1,298.0 | 1,246.0 | 1,235.0 | 1,164.0 | 1,109.0 | 1,023.0 | 581.2 | 633.3 | ||
| Botswana | 75.0 | 94.0 | ||||||||||||
| Cameroon | 327.1 | 324.0 | 463.5 | 494.7 | 262.1 | 256.9 | 254.6 | 225.4 | ||||||
| Congo | 83.9 | 167.5 | 264.6 | 266.5 | ||||||||||
| Côte d'Ivoire | 125.9 | |||||||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 188.0 | 140.4 | 36.7 | 24.6 | 22.2 | 30.0 | 20.0 | 16.7 | 28.4 | 22.7 | 29.5 | 27.4 | 5.4 | 7.2 |
| Gabon | 94.0 | 95.0 | 111.0 | 118.0 | 127.0 | 125.0 | 109.0 | 112.0 | 127.0 | 174.0 | 176.3 | 171.3 | 87.0 | |
| Ghana | 83.0 | |||||||||||||
| Kenya | 158.7 | |||||||||||||
| Madagascar | 24.0 | |||||||||||||
| Mali | 201.4 | |||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 142.0 | 172.2 | 239.4 | 246.8 | ||||||||||
| Nigeria | 173.6 | |||||||||||||
| Senegal | 138.0 | 134.0 | ||||||||||||
| South Africa | 11,890.0 | 991.0 | 550.2 | 14,270.0 | 13,704.0 | 11,837.0 | 9,821.3 | 7,113.7 | 5,504.4 | 3,502.0 | ||||
| Sudan | 205.0 | 40.0 | 25.0 | 13.0 | 7.2 | 81.5 | ||||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||||||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 428.0 | 433.0 | ||||||||||||
| Zambia | 4.3 | 4.2 | ||||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 98.0 | 206.0 | 17.0 |