United States Department of Transportation

U.S. Citizen International Departures Recovery Trend from Pre-COVID: 2019-2024

Figure

This bar chart illustrates the recovery trend of U.S. citizens making international departures following COVID. The y-axis represents the number of passengers and ranges from 0 to 120 million. The x-axis represents years and ranges from 2019 to 2024. Departures fell from 99.3 million in 2019 to 33.2 million in 2020 and rebounded to 107.7 million in 2024.

Dataset Excel:

U.S. Citizen International Departures Recovery Trend from Pre-COVID Base Year.xlsx (20.74 KB)

Description:

This bar chart is from the 2025 Transportation Statistics Annual Report.

Source:

BTS, data from NTTO 2025.

Previous Editions:

U.S. Citizen International Departures Recovery Trend: 2019-2023

Publications:

Transportation Statistics Annual Report Figure 2-21