High-speed rail passenger traffic climbed steadily and consistently between 2010 and 2019 worldwide. Passenger kilometers increased more than four-fold in almost a decade from *** in 2010 to * in 2019. After a decade of constant growth, the high-speed rail passenger traffic dropped sharply in 2020, caused primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic, falling further to under *** billion passenger-kilometers in 2021.
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