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Transport of passengers grew in 2022 but still not reached 2019 levels and communications sector decelerated
Transport and Communication Statistics
Transport of passengers grew in 2022 but still not reached 2019 levels and communications sector decelerated - 2022
16 November 2023

Summary

In 2022, the number of passengers transported, despite the increases recorded in all modes of transport compared to 2021, had not yet reached pre-pandemic levels, with the following variations being recorded compared to 2019: -2.1% by rail, -19.2% by subway, -12.1% by road, -15.6% by inland waterways and -5.6% by air.

Goods carried by sea and by air grew 2.3% and 17.1%, respectively. Conversely, goods transported by rail and by road decreased 3.5% and 1.0%. In comparison to 2019, all modes of transport, except air transport, which recorded an increase (+8.5%), registered a decrease: -7.2% by road, -4.0% by rail and -0.3% by sea.

The Communications sector kept growing in 2022 with the turnover increasing 4.6% (after +6.7% in 2021).  The number of internet accesses kept increasing (+3.7%, after the same variation in 2021) with fiber optic accesses increasing remarkably (+10.1%; +12.8% in 2021). Also the number of telephone accesses in fixed service (+2.2%; +2.0% in 2021), the number of mobile active accesses with effective utilization (+3.6%; +5.9% in 2021), voice traffic originated in mobile network (+4.0% in number of calls) and the number of subscribers for television service by subscrition (+3.1%; +3.0% in 2021) kept increasing. Only postal traffic decreased (-4.2%, -2.7% in 2021).

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