The chart above shows the number of subway riders in each state. France has a clear lead over every other EU state in subway riders.
Findings
- The difference between the state with the most subway riders, France, and the state with the least (that has a subway system), Denmark, is 1,981,900,000 riders.
- France has 32.21 times the subway riders that Denmark does.
- Italy has seven subway systems, France has six, the United Kingdom and Germany each have four, Spain has three, and the Netherlands has two, all other states have one.
Caveats
- Data is from 2017 except for the Genoa and Rome Metros which are from 2012, the Nuremberg U-Bahn and Athens and Turin Metros which are from 2015, the French, Polish, Romanian, and United Kingdom subways which are from 2016, and the Catania Metro which is from 2018.
- Greece is currently working on building a subway system for Thessaloniki.
- All figures are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Details
France accounts for over one-fifth of all subway riders in the EU at 21.44%. It, with the United Kingdom and Germany make up over half of the subway riders in the EU at 51.77%.
Italy's largest subway system by riders, the Milan Metro, makes up 58.94% of the total subway riders in the country. France's largest, the Paris Metro, makes up 74.24% of the total subway riders in France. The United Kingdom's largest system, the London Underground, makes up 88.94% of the country's total. Germany's largest system, the Berlin U-Bahn, makes up 41.88% of Germany's total riders. Spain's largest, the Madrid Metro, makes up 56.69% of its total. Finally, the Netherlands' largest system, the Rotterdam Metro, accounts for 55.79% of the total subway riders in the Netherlands.
Data
| State | City | Name | Riders (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Brussels | Brussels Metro | 151.6 |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | Sofia Metro | 89.7 |
| Czech Republic | Prague | Prague Metro | 435.6 |
| Denmark | Copenhagen | Copenhagen Metro | 63.5 |
| Finland | Helsinki | Helsinki Metro | 67.5 |
| France | Rennes | Rennes Metro | 34.3 |
| France | Marseille | Marseille Metro | 75.9 |
| France | Lille | Lille Metro | 107.5 |
| France | Toulouse | Toulouse Metro | 110.9 |
| France | Lyon | Lyon Metro | 198.2 |
| France | Paris | Paris Metro | 1,518.6 |
| Germany | Nuremberg | Nuremberg U-Bahn | 128.85 |
| Germany | Hamburg | Hamburg U-Bahn | 242.5 |
| Germany | Munich | Munich U-Bahn | 410 |
| Germany | Berlin | Berlin U-Bahn | 563 |
| Greece | Athens | Athens Metro | 264.4 |
| Hungary | Budapest | Budapest Metro | 410.6 |
| Italy | Catania | Catania Metro | 5.8 |
| Italy | Genoa | Genoa Metro | 11 |
| Italy | Brescia | Brescia Metro | 17.4 |
| Italy | Turin | Turin Metro | 41.1 |
| Italy | Naples | Naples Metro | 42.5 |
| Italy | Rome | Rome Metro | 279 |
| Italy | Milan | Milan Metro | 569.5 |
| Netherlands | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Metro | 73.7 |
| Netherlands | Rotterdam | Rotterdam Metro | 93 |
| Poland | Warsaw | Warsaw Metro | 187.3 |
| Portugal | Lisbon | Lisbon Metro | 161.5 |
| Romania | Bucharest | Bucharest Metro | 179.1 |
| Spain | Bilbao | Metro Bilbao | 88.2 |
| Spain | Barcelona | Barcelona Metro | 390.4 |
| Spain | Madrid | Madrid Metro | 626.4 |
| Sweden | Stockholm | Stockholm Metro | 353 |
| United Kingdom | Glasgow | Glasgow Subway | 11.4 |
| United Kingdom | Newcastle | Tyne and Wear Metro | 37.7 |
| United Kingdom | London | Docklands Light Railway | 122.3 |
| United Kingdom | London | London Underground | 1,378 |
Sources
Wikipedia. 2019. "List of Metro Systems." Accessed February 24, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems.