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Australian air travel grew 473% from 1985 to 2019 while GDP grew 184%

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Australian air travel grew 473% from 1985 to 2019 while GDP grew 184%
Australia: aviation demand vs GDP (growth from annual passenger and GDP sums, 1985 vs 2019, the last pre-COVID full year)
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Australian air travel grows substantially faster than the economy, among the steepest responses of the ranked markets, but its long-run test passes only with the pandemic years in the sample.

What this shows: The chart covers 1985 Q1 to 2025 Q3 and its vertical axis shows log(passengers).

Conditions and method

Status: provisional (the long-run test behind this status passes only with the pandemic quarters in the sample; on pre-COVID data alone it fails).

How these numbers are made

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