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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 4,41,468.0 | 5,83,320.0 | 7,91,158.0 | 9,21,541.0 | 9,40,249.0 | 10,08,172.0 | 10,89,560.0 | 11,09,312.0 | 11,60,059.0 | 12,66,681.0 | 13,61,715.0 | 14,38,606.0 | 3,28,251.0 | 9,46,499.0 |
| Indonesia | 19,228.0 | 14,345.0 | 20,340.0 | 19,024.0 | 17,154.0 | 16,926.0 | 20,396.0 | 22,296.0 | 21,636.0 | 15,558.0 | 16,932.0 | 29,066.0 | ||
| Republic of Korea | 49,558.0 | 54,641.0 | 58,381.0 | 63,044.0 | 70,079.0 | 66,353.0 | 67,860.0 | 68,371.0 | 86,871.0 | 89,964.0 | 92,193.0 | 1,00,381.0 | ||
| Mongolia | 1,070.0 | 1,220.0 | 1,399.0 | 1,485.0 | 1,394.0 | 1,194.5 | 996.7 | 956.0 | 973.0 | 1,112.0 | 580.0 | 91.0 | ||
| Turkey | 5,832.0 | 5,036.0 | 5,584.0 | 7,122.0 | 6,361.0 | 6,225.0 | 7,401.0 | 8,326.0 | 7,829.0 | 8,465.0 | 8,938.0 | 14,259.0 | 8,297.0 | 10,683.0 |
| Cuba | 1,853.0 | 1,513.8 | ||||||||||||
| India | 4,30,666.0 | 5,75,702.0 | 9,03,465.0 | 9,78,508.0 | 10,46,522.0 | 10,46,522.0 | 11,40,412.0 | 11,47,190.0 | 11,43,039.0 | 11,49,835.0 | 11,77,699.0 | 11,57,174.0 | 10,50,738.0 | 2,31,126.0 |
| Pakistan | 18,495.0 | 24,238.0 | 20,619.0 | 19,779.0 | 20,288.0 | 21,201.0 | 22,476.0 | 24,903.0 | ||||||
| Sri Lanka | 3,208.0 | 4,357.6 | 4,574.2 | 5,039.5 | 6,257.4 | 7,407.4 | ||||||||
| 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 |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 428.0 | 433.0 | ||||||||||||
| Kenya | 158.7 | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 173.6 | |||||||||||||
| Senegal | 138.0 | 134.0 | ||||||||||||
| Zambia | 4.3 | 4.2 | ||||||||||||
| Philippines | 123.0 | 342.0 | 384.0 | |||||||||||
| Botswana | 75.0 | 94.0 | ||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 142.0 | 172.2 | 239.4 | 246.8 | ||||||||||
| Madagascar | 24.0 | |||||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 98.0 | 206.0 | 17.0 |