Fatal airliner accidents per million commercial flights
What you should know about this indicator
- Fatal accidents, hijacking incidents and numbers of fatalities are based on airliners of 14+ passengers, and do not include corporate jet and military transport accidents.
- Information contained in the Aviation Safety Network database is based on information from official sources, such as authorities and safety boards.
Sources and processing
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
- Calculated by dividing the number of fatal accidents, from the Aviation Safety Network, by the number of worldwide departures, from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, and multiplying by 1,000,000.
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“Data Page: Fatal airliner accidents per million commercial flights”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2021) - “Transport”. Data adapted from Aviation Safety Network, International Civil Aviation Organization (via World Bank). Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fatal-airliner-accidents-per-million-flights [online resource]How to cite this data
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Aviation Safety Network (2024); Multiple sources compiled by World Bank (2024) – processed by Our World in DataFull citation
Aviation Safety Network (2024); Multiple sources compiled by World Bank (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “Fatal airliner accidents per million commercial flights” [dataset]. Aviation Safety Network, “Accidents and fatalities per year”; International Civil Aviation Organization (via World Bank), “World Development Indicators” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fatal-airliner-accidents-per-million-flights