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  "study": {
    "slug": "air-passengers-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Air Travel in the EU Is Back Above Its Pre-Pandemic Level",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/air-passengers-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 2,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Air passengers carried, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "passengers carried",
  "selection": "The four Member States that carried more than 100 million air passengers in 2025. The Netherlands is fifth with 78,417,027.",
  "decimals": 0,
  "referenceLabel": null,
  "note": "National counts include passengers on flights to and from other Member States, who are counted again in the partner country, so they cannot be added together. No EU row is shown: Eurostat's EU total removes that double count and is not on the same footing as the national figures.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Air transport of passengers by country (yearly data)",
    "code": "ttr00012",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "PAS",
      "tra_meas": "PAS_CRD",
      "tra_cov": "TOTAL",
      "schedule": "TOTAL"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-22",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-21",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/ttr00012",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ttr00012/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 272121512,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Germany",
      "value": 207239776,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Italy",
      "value": 193278859,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "France",
      "value": 171964002,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}