More from U.S. News. 1  U.S. News Home News and Opinion, Rankings, See all 2  Â». Cars Best New Cars, Best Used Cars, See all 3  Â». Credit Cards Best Airline Credit Cards, See all 4  Â». Diets Best Diets Overall, Health Tech and Diets Advice, See all 5  Â». Doctors & Hospitals Best Doctors, Best Hospitals, See all Â».
How many people can an airplane carry? Depends on the aircraft. Some planes such as the 787 and 320 can carry up too 250 passengers, While an Embraer 145 can only hold about 25-45.
So i make that 0.05%. And the US has 250,000 pilots for 250,000,000 people so thats your 0.1%. And given these are two of the most pilot/aircraft dense countries in the world then for the 6 billion people in the world there's probably less than 1-2m pilots. (But that still a scary amount of ego for one small planet)