In 2019, Tokyo had the busiest metro network with about 3.9 billion number of journeys followed by Moscow with about 2.5 billion ridership. In 2019, the top 10 busiest metro networks in the world had a ridership of above 1.5 billion each. However in 2020, the figures plummeted as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and some metro networks were far more affected than others. In New Delhi, traffic decreased by almost 90 percent from 2019, and in New York and Mexico City, the metro network ridership declined by 62 percent and 44 percent respectively.
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* The ridership figures for Tokyo are the aggregation of the networks of different
operators, including the largest ones, Tokyo Metro and TOEI. This means that an
unknown number of trips using lines of multiple operators are counted twice.
** Delhi data is for the financial year (April to March); 2020 data is an estimation, as official data was not available.
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