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Originally Posted by 08marsh

Anyone can edit wikipedia. Hardly reliable.

http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/...-a-passport-2/

The number of Americans who have a passport, according to the most recent statistics issued by the State Department in January of 2011, is 114,464,041.

Given the country’s population of 307,006,550, about 37% of the population has one. This means that nearly 2 out of 3 Americans can’t even fly to Canada, let alone travel to anywhere else in the world (new rules allow those with “Passport Cards” to travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and Bermuda, but they are not allowed to be used for international air travel. There are about 3.5 million Americans who have this card.)

So has this number been going up or down in the last few years?

According to the statistics, 2010 was basically on par with 2009 and 2006 levels, both of which were far below the 2007 and 2008 levels (due to stricter air travel requirements as mentioned above), but still nearly double from what they were as recently as 2003 (7.3 million in 2003 to last year’s 12.3 million passports issued.)

See also :

http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi...stats_890.html