Editing High-speed rail (section)

==Ridership==

High-speed rail ridership has been increasing rapidly since 2000. At the beginning of the century, the largest share of ridership was on the Japanese [[Shinkansen]] network. In 2000, the Shinkansen was responsible for about 85% of the cumulative world ridership up to that point.<ref name="whhh"/><ref>{{cite web |title=新幹線旅客輸送量の推移|trans-title=Changes in Shinkansen Passenger Traffic Volume |url=https://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000232384.pdf |website=国土交通省|trans-website=Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism |access-date=17 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122195823/https://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000232384.pdf |archive-date=22 January 2013 |language=ja-JP |url-status=live}}</ref>
This has been progressively surpassed by the Chinese high-speed rail network, which has been the largest contributor of global ridership growth since its inception. As of 2018, annual ridership of the Chinese high-speed rail network is over five times larger than that of the Shinkansen.

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|+ Comparison of high-speed rail and airlines, by year: annual passengers worldwide (in millions).<ref name="whhh">{{cite web |language=ja |url=http://whhh.fc2web.com/ktx/hikaku.html |script-title=ja:KTX vs 新幹線 徹底比較 |access-date=6 May 2015 |archive-date=9 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009122921/http://whhh.fc2web.com/ktx/hikaku.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="mlit">{{cite web |language=ja |url=http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000232384.pdf |script-title=ja:新幹線旅客輸送量の推移}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id%3D20140628000066%26cid%3D1206 |title=Taiwan HSR operator pitches restructuring idea to shareholders |access-date=12 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208160542/http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140628000066&cid=1206 |archive-date=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ktdb.go.kr/web/guest/419 |title=월별 일반철도 역간 이용인원 |access-date=12 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104124636/http://ktdb.go.kr/web/guest/419 |archive-date=4 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |language=zh-hans |url=http://finance.people.com.cn/stock/n/2015/0130/c67815-26478015.html |script-title=zh:铁路2014年投资8088亿元&nbsp;超额完成全年计划--财经--人民网 |publisher=People's Daily Online Finance}}</ref> Only systems with {{convert|200|km/h|0|abbr=on}} service speeds or higher are considered.
!scope="col"| Year
!scope="col"| Annual world HSR<ref name="whhh" /><ref name="mlit" />
!scope="col"| Annual world airlines<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR|title=Air transport, passengers carried |website=data.worldbank.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2014-10-16-01.aspx|title=IATA – New IATA Passenger Forecast Reveals Fast-Growing Markets of the Future|last=IATA|access-date=6 May 2015|archive-date=17 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517034249/http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2014-10-16-01.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"| 2000
| 435 || 1,674
|-
!scope="row"| 2005
| 559 || 1,970
|-
!scope="row"| 2010
| 895 || 2,628
|-
!scope="row"| 2012
| 1,185 || 2,894
|-
!scope="row"| 2014
| 1,470 || 3,218
|-
!scope="row"| 2016
| ''~2,070'' (prelim) || 3,650
|-
!scope="row"| 2017
| x || 4,030
|-
!scope="row"| 2018
| x || 4,290
|-
!scope="row"| 2019
| 3,291.1 || 4,460
|-
!scope="row"| 2020
| x || 1,770
|-
!scope="row"| 2021
| x || 2,280
|-
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+High-speed rail ridership in the world. Data is from UIC Statistics unless otherwise specified.<ref>{{Cite web |title=RAILISA STAT UIC |url=https://uic-stats.uic.org/select/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=uic-stats.uic.org}}</ref> Only countries with more than 5 million passengers a year are included.
!Country/territory
!Ridership (millions)
!Passenger-km (billions)
!Year
|-
|{{Flagicon|China}} [[China]]
|2357.7
|774.7
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Japan]]
|354.6
|99.3
|2019<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=railways |first=UIC-International union of |date=2022-03-13 |title=High-Speed Databases and Atlas |url=https://uic.org/passenger/highspeed/article/high-speed-database-maps |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=UIC – International union of railways |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{Flagicon|Russia}} [[Russia]]
|156.7
|6.2
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|France}} [[France]]
|125.9
|60.0
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany]]
|99.2
|33.2
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|Taiwan}} [[Taiwan]]
|67.4
|12.0
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[South Korea]]
|66.1
|16.0
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|Italy}} [[Italy]]
|59.7
|21.1
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|Spain}} [[Spain]]
|41.2
|16.1
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|USA}} [[United States]]
|12.7
|3.4
|2019<ref name=":1" />
|-
|{{Flagicon|Sweden}} [[Sweden]]
|11.6
|3.9
|2019
|-
|{{Flagicon|Turkey}} [[Turkey]]
|8.3
|2.7
|2019
|}