1、Aviation Benefits Beyond Borders1CONTENTSIntroduction2From Chicago to the world:80 years of ICAO3Executive summaryKey facts and figures from the world of air transport9A global industry driving sustainable developmentAviations global economic,social and environmental profile in 202317Regional and gr

2、oup analysis45Africa46Asia-Pacific48Europe50Latin America and the Caribbean52Middle East54North America56APEC economies58European Union59ASEAN member states60Small island states61Developing countries62OECD countries63Least-developed countries64Landlocked developing countries65National analysisA coun

3、try-by-country look at aviations benefits67A growth industryAn assessment of the next 20 years of aviation85References 89Methodology95Aviation Benefits Beyond Borders2Having grown up in a world of air travel,its hard to imagine that it was just 80 years ago that significant steps were being taken in

4、 the establishment of what is now the global air transport system.When 700 delegates met at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago for 37 days in late 1944,the world war which had ravaged many countries was still raging.And yet these negotiators were already putting in place a system that would make use of th

5、e advances in aerospace that the war had helped accelerate.As the war neared its end,the question became how civil aviation could help to open up a new world and be used as a tool to foster long-lasting peace?The Chicago Convention was signed on 7 December 1944.Even before the United Nations(UN)itse

6、lf had been established,the Conference set up a new international agency for the development of global air transport:the International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO).It also set the tone for how countries could use the connectivity that air travel would make possible as an agent of growth,develop