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Number of air traffic fatalities worldwide from 2006 to 2024

Characteristic	Number of fatalities
2024	296
2023	72
2022	160
2021	104
2020	298
2019	239
2018	561
2017	59
2016	258
2015	186
2014	692
2013	232
2012	477
2011	525
2010	943
2009	763
2008	595
2007	774
2006	905

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2025

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2006 to 2024

Supplementary notes

Figures prior to 2019 taken from earlier reports and including the number of fatal airliner (14+ passengers) hull-loss accidents and fatalities; figures exclude corporate jet and military transport accidents.

Figures from 2019 including fatalities on scheduled commercial flights.

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A total of 296 deaths were recorded worldwide in 2024 due to air traffc accidents, a sharp increase from 72 fatalities the previous year. Despite such year-to-year fluctuations, the overall trend over slightly longer or much longer time periods shows a decline in fatalities.

Fatal airline accidents

According to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, air traffic fatalities refer to an incident where a person is fatally injured due to an occurrence associated with the operation of the aircraft. This definition covers any time from when the first person starts boarding to when the final person disembarks the plane. Corporate jet and military transport accidents are generally excluded.

Overall safety of air travel

The overall trend downward in air travel fatalities is notable given that the volume of passenger air traffic has increased by more than 66 percent since 2004. Indeed, when considered in terms of the number of accidents per distance travelled, air travel is statistically the safest form of transport. For example, in both the United States and the United Kingdom, air travel is many thousands of times safer than the most dangerous form of travel – motorcycle riding.