| # | Flag | Country | Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwideAir transport, registered carrier departures worldwide | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 9,639,096 | 2017 | |
| 2 | China | 4,359,033 | 2017 | |
| 3 | Canada | 1,443,818 | 2017 | |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 1,210,165 | 2017 | |
| 5 | Japan | 1,035,522 | 2017 | |
| 6 | India | 1,029,961 | 2017 | |
| 7 | Germany | 943,058 | 2017 | |
| 8 | Indonesia | 916,471 | 2017 | |
| 9 | Republic of Ireland | 903,786 | 2017 | |
| 10 | Russia | 815,708 | 2017 | |
| 11 | Brazil | 803,846 | 2017 | |
| 12 | Turkey | 742,260 | 2017 | |
| 13 | Australia | 672,349 | 2017 | |
| 14 | France | 599,256 | 2017 | |
| 15 | Spain | 583,761 | 2017 | |
| 16 | Mexico | 567,879 | 2017 | |
| 17 | South Korea | 496,326 | 2017 | |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 458,672 | 2017 | |
| 19 | Thailand | 445,736 | 2017 | |
| 20 | Malaysia | 432,454 | 2017 | |
| 21 | Philippines | 369,158 | 2017 | |
| 22 | Colombia | 350,438 | 2017 | |
| 23 | Netherlands | 342,265 | 2017 | |
| 24 | Saudi Arabia | 270,924 | 2017 | |
| 25 | Vietnam | 264,548 | 2017 | |
| 26 | Italy | 256,655 | 2017 | |
| 27 | Norway | 254,045 | 2004 | |
| 28 | Hong Kong | 243,518 | 2017 | |
| 29 | Switzerland | 216,468 | 2017 | |
| 30 | South Africa | 216,275 | 2017 | |
| 31 | Singapore | 213,198 | 2017 | |
| 32 | Argentina | 198,927 | 2017 | |
| 33 | Qatar | 194,389 | 2017 | |
| 34 | Sweden | 190,315 | 2004 | |
| 35 | New Zealand | 184,762 | 2017 | |
| 36 | Iran | 178,168 | 2017 | |
| 37 | Portugal | 170,461 | 2017 | |
| 38 | Finland | 166,030 | 2017 | |
| 39 | Hungary | 158,454 | 2017 | |
| 40 | Austria | 156,761 | 2017 | |
| 41 | Belgium | 152,166 | 2017 | |
| 42 | Panama | 146,175 | 2017 | |
| 43 | Belize | 141,319 | 2017 | |
| 44 | Greece | 135,763 | 2017 | |
| 45 | Peru | 130,378 | 2017 | |
| 46 | Chile | 124,089 | 2017 | |
| 47 | Egypt | 110,956 | 2017 | |
| 48 | Kenya | 108,380 | 2017 | |
| 49 | Poland | 106,427 | 2017 | |
| 50 | Denmark | 99,598 | 2004 | |
| 51 | Ethiopia | 99,263 | 2017 | |
| 52 | Morocco | 83,355 | 2017 | |
| 53 | Algeria | 75,742 | 2017 | |
| 54 | Oman | 70,436 | 2017 | |
| 55 | Pakistan | 66,346 | 2017 | |
| 56 | Myanmar | 65,028 | 2017 | |
| 57 | Kazakhstan | 65,009 | 2017 | |
| 58 | Ukraine | 63,729 | 2017 | |
| 59 | Bangladesh | 61,902 | 2017 | |
| 60 | Bahrain | 54,474 | 2017 | |
| 61 | Papua New Guinea | 53,696 | 2017 | |
| 62 | Romania | 52,081 | 2017 | |
| 63 | Israel | 51,268 | 2017 | |
| 64 | Ecuador | 50,837 | 2017 | |
| 65 | Czech Republic | 50,387 | 2017 | |
| 66 | Venezuela | 49,971 | 2017 | |
| 67 | Iceland | 49,756 | 2017 | |
| 68 | Costa Rica | 48,971 | 2017 | |
| 69 | Luxembourg | 48,289 | 2017 | |
| 70 | The Bahamas | 48,017 | 2017 | |
| 71 | Latvia | 47,885 | 2017 | |
| 72 | Bolivia | 47,566 | 2017 | |
| 73 | Tunisia | 43,869 | 2017 | |
| 74 | Nigeria | 43,545 | 2017 | |
| 75 | Kuwait | 41,736 | 2017 | |
| 76 | Sri Lanka | 41,272 | 2017 | |
| 77 | Jordan | 36,946 | 2017 | |
| 78 | Maldives | 33,904 | 2017 | |
| 79 | Nepal | 33,767 | 2017 | |
| 80 | Trinidad and Tobago | 32,589 | 2017 | |
| 81 | Serbia | 29,705 | 2017 | |
| 82 | Belarus | 29,562 | 2017 | |
| 83 | Tanzania | 28,862 | 2017 | |
| 84 | El Salvador | 27,995 | 2017 | |
| 85 | Kyrgyzstan | 27,097 | 2017 | |
| 86 | Croatia | 26,809 | 2017 | |
| 87 | Lebanon | 25,412 | 2017 | |
| 88 | Azerbaijan | 25,365 | 2017 | |
| 89 | Antigua and Barbuda | 24,019 | 2017 | |
| 90 | Afghanistan | 23,682 | 2017 | |
| 91 | Ghana | 23,538 | 2017 | |
| 92 | Macao | 22,551 | 2017 | |
| 93 | Fiji | 22,075 | 2017 | |
| 94 | Uzbekistan | 21,730 | 2017 | |
| 95 | Equatorial Guinea | 20,590 | 2017 | |
| 96 | Seychelles | 20,539 | 2017 | |
| 97 | Slovenia | 18,488 | 2017 | |
| 98 | Angola | 16,679 | 2017 | |
| 99 | Mauritius | 14,842 | 2017 | |
| 100 | Cambodia | 14,372 | 2017 | |
| 101 | Solomon Islands | 14,365 | 2017 | |
| 102 | Moldova | 14,116 | 2017 | |
| 103 | Namibia | 13,876 | 2017 | |
| 104 | Honduras | 13,687 | 2017 | |
| 105 | Samoa | 13,433 | 2017 | |
| 106 | Iraq | 13,178 | 2017 | |
| 107 | Vanuatu | 12,920 | 2017 | |
| 108 | Malta | 12,799 | 2017 | |
| 109 | Mozambique | 12,659 | 2017 | |
| 110 | Cuba | 12,521 | 2017 | |
| 111 | Lithuania | 12,151 | 2017 | |
| 112 | Guam | 11,470 | 2009 | |
| 113 | Bulgaria | 11,150 | 2017 | |
| 114 | Turkmenistan | 11,068 | 2017 | |
| 115 | Brunei | 10,743 | 2017 | |
| 116 | Togo | 10,485 | 2017 | |
| 117 | Ivory Coast | 10,171 | 2017 | |
| 118 | Laos | 9,731 | 2017 | |
| 119 | Libya | 9,686 | 2017 | |
| 120 | American Samoa | 9,144 | 2014 | |
| 121 | Zambia | 9,020 | 2017 | |
| 122 | Uruguay | 8,731 | 2009 | |
| 123 | Republic of the Congo | 8,439 | 2017 | |
| 124 | Cyprus | 8,284 | 2017 | |
| 125 | Bhutan | 7,927 | 2017 | |
| 126 | Madagascar | 7,650 | 2017 | |
| 127 | Democratic Republic Of Congo | 6,958 | 2017 | |
| 128 | Botswana | 6,901 | 2017 | |
| 129 | Montenegro | 6,436 | 2017 | |
| 130 | Cameroon | 5,640 | 2017 | |
| 131 | Mauritania | 5,331 | 2017 | |
| 132 | Tajikistan | 5,283 | 2017 | |
| 133 | Mongolia | 5,277 | 2017 | |
| 134 | Tonga | 5,255 | 2004 | |
| 135 | Kiribati | 5,005 | 2017 | |
| 136 | Georgia | 4,985 | 2017 | |
| 137 | Cape Verde | 4,985 | 2017 | |
| 138 | Rwanda | 4,593 | 2017 | |
| 139 | Uganda | 4,233 | 2017 | |
| 140 | Djibouti | 3,900 | 1991 | |
| 141 | Burkina Faso | 3,863 | 2017 | |
| 142 | Guatemala | 3,577 | 2017 | |
| 143 | Paraguay | 3,476 | 2017 | |
| 144 | Zimbabwe | 3,444 | 2017 | |
| 145 | Suriname | 3,385 | 2017 | |
| 146 | Sudan | 3,265 | 2017 | |
| 147 | Marshall Islands | 2,756 | 2017 | |
| 148 | Swaziland | 2,586 | 2000 | |
| 149 | Malawi | 2,327 | 2017 | |
| 150 | Gabon | 2,305 | 2016 | |
| 151 | Liberia | 2,200 | 1992 | |
| 152 | Sierra Leone | 2,145 | 2012 | |
| 153 | Yemen | 1,669 | 2017 | |
| 154 | Burundi | 1,400 | 1998 | |
| 155 | Republic of Macedonia | 1,389 | 2009 | |
| 156 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,200 | 1998 | |
| 157 | Jamaica | 1,181 | 2017 | |
| 158 | Dominican Republic | 1,170 | 2016 | |
| 159 | Albania | 1,168 | 2017 | |
| 160 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1,143 | 2009 | |
| 161 | Comoros | 1,100 | 1996 | |
| 162 | Senegal | 1,087 | 2017 | |
| 163 | Eritrea | 919 | 2017 | |
| 164 | Nauru | 842 | 2017 | |
| 165 | Haiti | 800 | 1991 | |
| 166 | Central African Republic | 716 | 2001 | |
| 167 | Barbados | 700 | 1991 | |
| 168 | Gambia | 625 | 2017 | |
| 169 | Guinea | 600 | 1999 | |
| 170 | Estonia | 528 | 2017 | |
| 171 | Niger | 471 | 2017 | |
| 172 | North Korea | 460 | 2017 | |
| 173 | Nicaragua | 452 | 2000 | |
| 174 | Lesotho | 200 | 1999 | |
| 175 | Syria | 165 | 2017 | |
| 176 | Somalia | 98 | 2017 | |
| 177 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 81 | 2015 | |
| 178 | Chad | 72 | 2014 | |
| 179 | Slovakia | 51 | 2017 | |
| 180 | Benin | 10 | 2016 | |
| 181 | Monaco | 3 | 2017 | |
| 182 | Guyana | 0 | 2014 | |
| 183 | Mali | 0 | 2014 | |
| 184 | Armenia | 0 | 2014 |