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Table 14: Per capita air passengers carried at the OIC Member States (2015)
MENA Sub-Saharan Africa Asia
Qatar 11.302 Togo 0.105 Brunei Darussalam 2.717
UAE 9.254 Gabon 0.080 Malaysia 1.660
Bahrain 3.858 Mauritania 0.061 Suriname 0.478
Oman 1.418 Mozambique 0.025 Turkmenistan 0.398
Turkey 1.228 Nigeria 0.018 Indonesia 0.344
Saudi Arabia 1.039 Cote d'Ivoire 0.016 Kazakhstan 0.290
Kuwait 0.939 Sudan 0.012 Azerbaijan 0.187
Lebanon 0.442 Cameroon 0.011 Kyrgyz Republic 0.105
Libya 0.409 Benin 0.010 Tajikistan 0.095
Jordan 0.404 Senegal 0.008 Uzbekistan 0.079
Tunisia 0.315 Burkina Faso 0.007 Afghanistan 0.059
Morocco 0.197 Gambia, The 0.002 Pakistan 0.045
Iran 0.190 Uganda 0.001 Bangladesh 0.018
Algeria 0.149 Niger 0.001
Egypt 0.111
Yemen 0.052
Iraq 0.013
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
2015. 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 13-fold increase in its air freight
traffic between 1993 and 2015 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.