Humans launched to orbit
ObservedPeople launched on orbital flights per year, counted from the crew list of each launch.
Ingestedfrom The Space DevsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
28people
period 2025- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- 2025
- Unit
- people
- Frequency
- annual
- Ingested
- 2026-09-07 19:59 UTC
1-year change0no change0.00%2024 to 2025from 28 to 28 people
10-year trend--not enough data: no observation for 2015 to compare with 2025
Historical series
Humans launched to orbit, World
Observed
Data table (3 rows)
| Period | Value (people) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 19:59 UTC |
| 2024 | 28 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 19:59 UTC |
| 2023 | 21 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 19:59 UTC |
Definition
What this measures
Sum of the launch crew across every orbital launch attempt in the calendar year, from the spacecraft stage crew list in Launch Library 2. A person who flies twice in a year is counted twice (this is launches of people, not distinct people). Crew on a failed launch are counted as launched. Counted from Launch Library 2 launch records whose net launch time falls in the calendar year, with suborbital flights excluded by the API (include_suborbital=false) and status Success, Failure or Partial Failure (the vehicle lifted off). Launches still marked Go, TBD or Hold are not counted.
- Direction
- higher is better
- Geography level
- world
- Slug
- humans-launched
Space Expansion
Related metrics
Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- The Space Devs, The Space Devs, Launch Library 2 (LL2) API
- Series ID
launches:humans_launchedlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://thespacedevs.com/llapi
- License and attribution
- Approved with attributionData: The Space Devs, Launch Library 2
- Last source update
- 2026-09-07(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 22:03 UTC
- Parser version
- thespacedevs-ll2/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Depends on Launch Library 2 crew records being complete for each crewed launch. Only closed calendar years are stored (the running year would read as a drop against the previous full year; set include_current_year on the series to add it). Launch Library 2 corrects records after the fact, so closed years can change; each change is stored as a new row. Attribution: Data: The Space Devs, Launch Library 2.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000 people.3 periods with values for this geography, 2023 to 2025.
- Revisions
- Values reported for the latest period (2025) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revision Value (people) Ingested at Status 2026-09-07 28 2026-09-07 19:59 UTC current No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.