The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that a total of 17.23-million passengers passed through Nigerian airports in 2018.
The NBS said this in its Air Transportation Data for 2018 posted on its website.
The report said international passengers who passed through the country’s airports reached 4.43m in 2018 as against 4.05m passengers in 2017.
This, according to the report, represents a 9.42 percent growth rate.
Similarly, the bureau said the number of domestic passengers who passed through airports reached 12.79 million in 2018 as against 10.38 million in 2017.
It further said that the 2018 figure represented a 23.19 percent growth rate.
Also, the bureau said aircraft traffic reached 290,328 in the year under review.
It said a total of 55,961 international airliners passed the airports in 2018 as against 40,328 in 2017.
The data in the report was supplied by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, verified and validated by the NBS.