The statistic shows the share of citizens from the United States who own a valid passport from 1989 to 2017. In 2017, 42 percent of the total population of the United States owned a valid passport.
In 2024, there were around 169.9 million valid U.S. passports in circulation. This represented an increase from the previous year's figure of 160.7 million.
In 2023, over *** thousand Indians renounced their citizenship. This was a decline from the previous which recorded the highest number of passports relinquished. The number of people giving up their Indian citizenship has significantly increased since 2020. Most of these became citizens of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
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The statistic shows the share of citizens from the United States who own a valid passport from 1989 to 2017. In 2017, 42 percent of the total population of the United States owned a valid passport.