BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 13. A total 681.9 million passengers were transported in Kazakhstan by all means of transport in September 2022, which is 11 percent less than in September 2021, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Statistics Committee.
In turn, the volume of passengers transported over the period from January through September 2022 amounted to 5.1 billion people, which is 5.4 percent more year-on-year compared to 4.9 billion over last year.
Thus, the majority of the passengers were transported to Kazakhstan’s Almaty city. The number of passengers transported in the city amounted to 180.4 million people in September and 1.3 billion people over the reporting period of 2022, which is 18 percent less and 22 percent more than during the same period last year, respectively.
Almaty city is followed by the Kostanay region with 66.3 million people transported in September 2022 (a decrease of 2.8 percent compared to September 2021). The number of passengers transported in the region during the reporting period amounted to 493.4 million people, which compared to 454.4 million during the same period last year, indicates a 8.6-percent increase.
Pavlodar region takes third place country-wide by the passengers transported in September 2022 (56.1 million people, down by 2.3 percent). The number of passengers transported in the region over the period from January through September 2022 amounted to 422.09 million, which is 6 percent more than during the same period last year (422.09 million people).
The least passenger volume was recorded in the Mangystau region. The transported passenger volume stood at 3.4 million in September 2022, which is 1.6 percent less than in September 2021.
The volume of passengers transported over nine months of 2022 was 26.4 million, which is 16.2 percent more year-on-year.
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