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Table 13: Air passengers carried at the OIC Member States (2017)
MENA Sub-Saharan Africa Asia
Turkey 107,917,32
6
Nigeria 3,446,717 Indonesia 110,252,91
3
UAE 95,306,296 Cote d'Ivoire 788,098 Malaysia 58,188,823
Saudi Arabia 37,503,000 Mozambique 569,829 Pakistan 9,919,768
Qatar 29,949,181 Togo 500,686 Kazakhstan 5,653,190
Iran 19,282,796 Mauritania 418,817 Bangladesh 3,785,509
Egypt 12,017,179 Sudan 328,741 Uzbekistan 2,581,865
Oman 9,065,019 Cameroon 236,000 Azerbaijan 2,331,308
Morocco 8,436,970 Burkina
Faso
145,049 Afghanistan 1,858,558
Algeria 6,241,924 Gabon 77,320 Maldives 1,485,752
Kuwait 5,586,034 Uganda 54,937 Turkmenistan 1,279,937
Bahrain 5,190,484 The Gambia 53,735 Brunei
Darussalam
1,172,201
Tunisia 4,194,174 Senegal 21,038 Kyrgyz Republic 1,127,285
Jordan 3,381,677 Niger 14,713 Tajikistan 796,383
Lebanon 2,869,266 Somalia 4,486 Suriname
284,935
Iraq 2,170,504
Libya 1,186,424
Yemen, Rep. 132,571
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators
Regarding the number of air passengers throughout the 1993-2017 period, Figure 17 reveals
that OIC-MENA outperformed other regions since 1993 while OIC-Sub-Saharan Africa remained
well below the other regions during this period.
Figure 17: Total air passengers carried in the OIC regions (1993-2017)
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators
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