NYC Subway Ridership Since 1991 Compared with the London Underground, the Paris Métro and Tokyo Metro: Yearly Trips, Shares of Each Last Normal Year, Weekdays and Weekends, and 2026 to Date
Aggregate statistics from the article “New York's subway has won back less of its pre-pandemic riding than London's, Paris's or Tokyo's”
No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.
- Records
- Aggregate statistics
- Place
- New York City
- Version
- 1.0,
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0; code MIT
Against each system's last normal year, New York's subway carried 76% of its trips in 2025; in their latest years, London's Underground 87%, Tokyo Metro 90%, the Paris Métro 101%.
What it shows
The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: MTA subway ridership by year 1975-2024 (NYU Rudin Center's table to 2013, the MTA's pages after), its daily ridership to 28 October 2026 and its quarterly fare-evasion estimates; TfL's Underground journeys 1991/92-2010/11 (GLA, Travel in London 3) and by four-weekly period from April 2010 to 22 August 2026, with TfL's Q4 2024/25 report; SDES's annual trips on the RATP Métro 2000-2024 and the City of Paris's 2025 annual report; the Tokyo Statistical Yearbook's subway boardings, every edition 2000-2024; population estimates from the Census Bureau and ONS.
Files
Each file's columns are under Columns below and in data_dictionary.csv.
| File | Rows | Size | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|
data.csv |
172 | 7 KB | The data |
analysis.py |
25 KB | The analysis script |
Columns
data.csv: The data (4 columns)
The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.
system, year, year_kind, trips_millions. The article and its script
define each one.
Licence and credit
Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.
Credit it as:
SparkyData (2026). NYC Subway Ridership Since 1991 Compared with the London Underground, the Paris Métro and Tokyo Metro: Yearly Trips, Shares of Each Last Normal Year, Weekdays and Weekends, and 2026 to Date (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-subway-ridership-recovery-vs-london-paris-tokyoSources (9)
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority — Subway and bus ridership (yearly), daily ridership data and fare-evasion estimates, Yearly totals to 2024; daily estimates 2020 to 28 October 2026 (retrieved 1 November); fare evasion by quarter 2018-2025
- NYU Rudin Center for Transportation — Subway Ridership 1975-2015, March 2017
- Transport for London — Public transport journeys by type of transport (London Datastore), Periods from April 2010 to 22 August 2026, retrieved 29 October 2026
- Greater London Authority — Travel patterns and trends, London (from TfL's Travel in London report 3), Financial years 1991/92-2010/11
- Transport for London — Quarterly Performance Report, Q4 2024/25, 2024/25
- SDES (Ministère de la Transition écologique) — Bilan annuel des transports en 2024, transports de voyageurs, 2000-2024, data as of November 2025
- Ville de Paris — Rapport annuel 2025, transports en commun, Published July 2026
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government — Tokyo Statistical Yearbook, subway passengers by station, Every edition from 2000 to 2024 (fiscal years 1996-2024)
- Population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau and ONS (Nomis), Retrieved 29 October 2026
The article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and its own changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.