Sistem metro tersibuk menurut jumlah penumpang per tahunnya: Tokyo Subway 3.161 miliar (2010)
Moscow Metro 2.348 miliar (2010)
Seoul Subway 2.048 miliar (2009)
Shanghai Metro 1.884 miliar (2010)
Beijing Subway 1.84 miliar (2010)
New York City Subway 1.604 miliar (2010)
Métro de Paris 1.506 miliar (2010)
Mexico City Metro 1.410 miliar (2010)
Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway 1.41 miliar (2010)
Guangzhou Metro 1.18 miliar (2010)
London Underground 1.107 miliar (2010)
Osaka Municipal Subway 837 juta
Saint Petersburg Metro 829.8 juta (2007)
Cairo Metro 805 juta (2009/2010)
São Paulo Metro 754 juta (2010)
Singapore Mass Rapid Transit 744.8 juta (2010)
Madrid Metro 642 juta (2009)
Santiago Metro 621 juta (2010)
Prague Metro 578.5 juta (2010)
Vienna U-Bahn 534.4 juta (2010)
Berlin U-Bahn 508.9 juta (2009)
Taipei Metro 505.4 juta (2010)
Kiev Metro 502.8 juta (2009)
Caracas Metro 484.6 juta (2009)
Tehran Metro 459.1 juta (2008)
Nagoya Municipal Subway 427.5 juta (2008)
Buenos Aires Subway 409.8 juta (2008)
Athens Metro 388 juta (2009)
Barcelona Metro 381.2 juta (2010)
Munich U-Bahn 360 juta (2010)
Rome Metro 331 juta (2008)
Milan Metro 328 juta (2007)
Stockholm Metro 310 juta (2010)
Toronto subway and RT 304 juta (2009)
Budapest Metro 297 juta (2008)
Montreal Metro 296.3 juta (2010)
Kharkiv Metro 278 juta (2007)
Delhi Metro 278 juta
Busan Subway 274.8 juta (2010)
Minsk Metro 273.6 juta (2010)
Lyon Metro 250 juta (2008)
Bucharest Metro 219 juta (2007)
Washington Metro 217.2 juta (2010)
Nanjing Metro 214 juta (2010)
Sapporo Municipal Subway 210 juta (2006)
Baku Metro 206.1 juta (2009)
Chicago 'L' 203 juta (2009)
Manila Light Rail Transit System 196.6 juta (2008)
Hamburg U-Bahn 194.9 juta (2009)
Lisbon Metro 177 juta (2009)
Kolkata Metro 173 juta (2009)
Yokohama Municipal Subway 164 juta (2007)
Metro de Medellín 155 juta (2008)
Rio de Janeiro Metro 154.0 juta (2009)
Boston Subway 145 juta (2007)
Warsaw Metro 140.2 juta (2010)
Chongqing Rail Transit (CRT) 140 juta (2009)
Shenzhen Metro 138 juta (2009)
Brussels Metro 136 juta (2006)
Bangkok Skytrain 136 juta
Kyoto Municipal Subway 125.5 juta (2008)
Nuremberg U-Bahn 122.5 juta (2009)
Kobe Municipal Subway 121 juta (2008)
SkyTrain (Vancouver) 117.4 juta (2010)
Ankara Metro 113.2 juta (2007)
Frankfurt U-Bahn 112.1 juta (2008)
Daegu Metro 110 juta (2008)
RapidKL Light Rail Transit, Kuala Lumpur 109.2 juta (2008)
Fukuoka City Subway 108 juta (2004)
Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco 101.7 juta (2007)
Lille Metro 95.8 juta (2009)
SEPTA, Philadelphia 92.4 juta (2009)
Tbilisi Metro 91.8 juta (2007)
Amsterdam Metro 91 juta (2002)
Copenhagen S-train 91 juta (2008)
Monterrey Metro 88.3 juta (2008)
Rotterdam Metro 87.1 juta (2008)
Bilbao Metro 87.0 juta (2009)
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 79.1 juta (2009)
Santo Domingo Metro 73 juta (2009)
Incheon Subway 73 juta (2008)
Oslo Metro 73.0 juta (2008)
Port Authority Trans-Hudson, Newark-New York City 72.4 juta (2008)
Tashkent Metro 71 juta (2007)
Novosibirsk Metro 70 juta (2007)
Marseille Metro 69 juta (2007)
Valencia Metro 68 juta (2009)
Sofia Metro 65 juta (2009)
Docklands Light Railway 64 juta (2008)
Bangkok Metro 63.7 juta (2009)
Recife Metro 59.9 juta (2009)
Sendai Subway 58 juta (2008)
Helsinki Metro 58 juta (2008)
Istanbul Metro 55.6 juta (2006)
Brasília Metro 54.8 juta (2009)
Copenhagen Metro 50 juta (2009)
Tyne and Wear Metro 47 juta (2008)
Kaohsiung MRT 46.0 juta (2010)
Yekaterinburg Metro 46 juta (2007)
Porto Alegre Metro 45.3 juta (2007)
Los Angeles County Metro Rail 45.1 juta (2009)
Belo Horizonte Metro 43.8 juta (2009)
Rennes Metro 43.8 juta (2007)
Toulouse Metro 42 juta (2004)
Dubai Metro 39 juta (2010)
Kazan Metro 38.5 juta (2011)
Pyongyang Metro 35 juta (2008)
Nizhny Novgorod Metro 33 juta (2007)
Izmir Metro 30 juta (2005)
Daejeon Metropolitan Subway 29 juta (2008)
Naples Metro 29 juta (2006)
Lausanne Metro 25 juta (2009)
Turin Metro 21.9 juta (2009)
Mass Rapid Transit System 20.7 juta (2009)
Astram Line, Hiroshima 18 juta (2005)
Metrorail, Miami 17.8 juta (2009)
Yerevan Metro 17 juta (2009)
Gwangju Subway 17 juta (2008)
Kryvyi Rih Metrotram 16.5 juta (2009)
Tianjin Subway 15 juta (1993)
Valparaíso Metro 13.7 juta (2009)
Dnipropetrovsk Metro 13.6 juta (2008)
Seville Metro 13.46 juta (2009)
Glasgow Subway 13.4 juta (2008)
Metro Subway, Baltimore 13.2 juta (2009)
Wuhan Metro 13.15 juta (2009)
Samara Metro 12 juta (2007)
Genoa Metro 10 juta (2009)
Tren Urbano, San Juan 9.1 juta (2009)
RTA Rapid Transit, Cleveland 5.2 juta (2009)
Teresina Metro 1.8 juta (2009)
Palma de Mallorca Metro 1.2 juta (2009)
Kota yang memiliki sistem metroTokyo Subway adalah sistem angkutan cepat yang paling banyak digunakan di dunia.Moscow Metro adalah sistem tersibuk di Eropa dan terkenal karena stasiunnya yang dalam dan indah.Seoul Subway adalah sistem tersibuk di Korea Selatan dan daratan Asia.Shanghai Metro adalah sistem tersibuk keempat di dunia dan tersibuk di Cina.Beijing Subway adalah sistem tersibuk kelima di dunia.New York City Subway adalah sistem tersibuk di benua Amerika dan memiliki lebih banyak stasiun daripada sistem lain dengan jumlah 468 (atau 423 jika menyatukan stasiun transfer) buah.Métro de Paris adalah sistem tersibuk di Uni Eropa dan merupakan sistem kereta bawah tanah beroda karet tersibuk di dunia.Mexico City Metro adalah sistem metro tersibuk di Amerika Latin dan tersibuk kedua di benua Amerika, dan tekrenal karena arkeologi dan piktograf di stasiun-stasiunnya.Hong Kong MTR adalah sistem tersibuk kesembilan di dunia dan ketiga di Cina.Guangzhou Metro adalah sistem tersibuk kesepuluh di dunia dan keempat di Cina.London Underground, dikenal sebagai "Tube," adalah sistem tertua di dunia, beroperasi sejak 1863.
Sistem metro tersibuk menurut jumlah penumpang per tahunnya:
↑The figure is derived from ridership statistics of the two subway operators in Tokyo. The Tokyo Metro and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation's Toei Subway constitute only 22% of the 14.6 billion metropolitan railway ridership in Greater Tokyo (MLIT Yearly Statistics). Compared to European or North American systems, Japanese rapid transit systems are generally neither thought of as metros nor as completely subterranean "subways" complicating whether only using the municipal subway statistic is accurate when comparing with other Metros around the world. In addition, when one considers intracity lines of JR East and private railway companies, Greater Tokyo (130 lines) has higher daily ridership than any other metropolitan area in the world with 14.6 billion passengers annually.
↑The Osaka Municipal Subway has only a minority share of all metropolitan railway ridership in Greater Osaka constituting only 17.6% of Greater Osaka's 4.745 billion rail passengers annually in 2010. If you include the Kobe and Kyoto subways the subway still only represents 22% of all rail travel in the Greater Osaka area with 1065.8 million passengers yearly (MLIT Yearly Statistics). Compared to European or North American systems, Japanese rapid transit systems are generally neither thought of as metros nor as completely subterranean "subways" complicating whether only using the municipal subway statistic is accurate when comparing with other Metros around the world. Greater Osaka's 4.745 billion annual rail passengers is the 2nd highest in the world after Tokyo.
↑Ridership is based on unlinked passenger trips (i.e. a transfer between two lines counts as two trips, transferring between three lines counts as three trips, etc.).
↑The Nagoya Municipal Subway has only a minority share of all metropolitan railway ridership in Greater Nagoya constituting only 38% of Greater Nagoya's 1.095 billion rail passengers annually in 2010 (MLIT Yearly Statistics). Compared to European or North American systems, Japanese rapid transit systems are generally neither thought of as metros nor as completely subterranean "subways" complicating whether only using the municipal subway statistic is accurate when comparing with other Metros around the world.
12345678910All American Public Transportation Association (APTA) figures are derived from unlinked transit passenger trips (i.e. a transfer between two lines counts as two passenger trips, transferring twice counts as three trips, etc.).
↑Annual figures not available, rank is approximate using 9-month figures from December 2009 to August 2010 for the purpose of comparison.
↑"北京市2010年暨"十一五"期间国民经济和社会发展统计公报". Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics. 2011-02-21. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2012-03-20. Diakses tanggal 2011-03-07.
↑For ridership till August 22, 2010 see "Inside Delhi". The Hindu. 2010-09-24. Diakses tanggal 2010-12-24.. For ridership till November 25, 2009 see "Delhi Metro crosses billion mark". The Hindu. 2009-11-28. Diakses tanggal 2010-12-24..
↑"La rendibilitat del metro de Palma, en entredit" (dalam bahasa Catalan). Associació d’Amics del Ferrocarril de Balears. 4 April 2010. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2010-04-09. Diakses tanggal 18 April 2010.Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)