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Table 14: Per capita air passengers carried at the OIC Member States (2016)
MENA Sub-Saharan Africa Asia
Qatar 12,145 Mauritania 0,065 Maldives 3,377
UAE 9,942 Togo 0,062 Brunei Darussalam 2,761
Bahrain 3,663 Gabon 0,039 Malaysia 1,726
Oman 1,727 Nigeria 0,024 Suriname 0,480
Turkey 1,262 Mozambique 0,022 Indonesia 0,370
Saudi Arabia 1,069 Gambia, The 0,022 Kazakhstan 0,281
Kuwait 0,988 Cote d'Ivoire 0,018 Turkmenistan 0,233
Lebanon 0,441 Cameroon 0,015 Azerbaijan 0,201
Jordan 0,336 Burkina Faso 0,008 Tajikistan 0,119
Tunisia 0,316 Sudan 0,007 Kyrgyz Republic 0,096
Morocco 0,219 Uganda 0,001 Uzbekistan 0,075
Libya 0,204 Niger 0,001 Afghanistan 0,055
Iran 0,193 Senegal 0,001 Pakistan 0,050
Algeria 0,150 Bangladesh 0,023
Egypt 0,130
Yemen 0,030
Iraq 0,013
Albania 0,009
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators
Figure 18 shows the changes in the air freight traffic among the OIC regions between 1993 and
2016. One implication of Figure 18 is that air freight traffic in the OIC-Sub-Saharan Africa has
been quite premature and fell well below the other regions during this period. It is also
noteworthy that there is an exponential growth of air freight traffic in the OIC-MENA region
since 1993.
As a result of the boom, OIC-MENA has experienced an about 17-fold increase in its air freight
traffic between 1993 and 2016 whereas OIC-Asia only less than doubled its air freight traffic
during the same period. When the aggregate data is decomposed, it is seen that the boom of air
freight traffic in the OIC-MENA region mostly originated from UAE.