London Underground station passenger numbers 2019-2020

In 2020, the busiest station in the London Underground system was Stratford, with almost 25.1 million passenger entries and exits recorded, which represented a year-over-year decrease of over 61 percent. This significant drop was caused mainly by the COVID-19 restrictions imposed throughout the year. By comparison, in 2019, King's Cross St. Pancras was the busiest tube station in London, with more than 88 million passenger entries and exits recorded. In 2020, the number of passengers in the aforementioned station dropped to 18.8 million.

Passenger traffic on the London Underground

Passenger traffic increased significantly over the past 20 years. Between 2000 and 2019, the number of passenger journeys more than doubled, reaching its highest value in the financial year 2017/18, when the number of journeys almost reached 1.4 billion. In the financial year 2020/21 (April 2020-March 2021), the passenger volume on the tube dropped to 296 million passenger journeys as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tube, big contributor to the TfL's revenue

London Underground fares were one of the greatest contribution to overall revenue of Transport for London (TfL). The Tube reported a passenger income of 650 million British pounds in the financial year 2020/21, down from 2.7 billion reported a year earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, TfL generated revenue worth 1.6 billion British pounds from all the services in the financial year 2020/21.