They show that both air shipping and air travel remain extremely low in Africa (excluding North Africa). In 2015, the number of passengers carried by air was 45 million people, while the levels for Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and Caribbean were 23 times and 6 times higher, respectively. On the basis of these figures, in 2015, Africa (excluding North Africa) represented 1.3 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively, of world air travel and air shipping.