Astronauts per year
At the last update of our data files these are the number of people who were in space* each year. Note that the same astronaut can feature in multiple years if they had multiple missions or their missions crossed year boundaries. You can browse our data for each individual astronaut on Github. If you spot any mistakes, do please let us know or, even better, fix it for yourself in the repository and submit a pull request.
- Russian cosmonauts
- US astronauts
- Chinese taikonauts
- International astronauts
- Commercial/tourist
- Notable firsts
| Female astronauts | Year | Male astronauts |
| 1961 | 4 | |
| 1962 | 5 | |
| 1 | 1963 | 4 |
| 1964 | 3 | |
| 1965 | 12 | |
| 1966 | 10 | |
| 1967 | 1 | |
| 1968 | 7 | |
| 1969 | 23 | |
| 1970 | 5 | |
| 1971 | 12 | |
| 1972 | 6 | |
| 1973 | 13 | |
| 1974 | 9 | |
| 1975 | 9 | |
| 1976 | 6 | |
| 1977 | 6 | |
| 1978 | 12 | |
| 1979 | 4 | |
| 1980 | 13 | |
| 1981 | 10 | |
| 1 | 1982 | 15 |
| 1 | 1983 | 24 |
| 5 | 1984 | 32 |
| 4 | 1985 | 59 |
| 1986 | 9 | |
| 1987 | 8 | |
| 1988 | 21 | |
| 4 | 1989 | 26 |
| 3 | 1990 | 38 |
| 6 | 1991 | 36 |
| 9 | 1992 | 52 |
| 7 | 1993 | 41 |
| 7 | 1994 | 45 |
| 11 | 1995 | 40 |
| 5 | 1996 | 44 |
| 10 | 1997 | 51 |
| 6 | 1998 | 35 |
| 5 | 1999 | 18 |
| 5 | 2000 | 32 |
| 5 | 2001 | 42 |
| 5 | 2002 | 36 |
| 2 | 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 11 | |
| 2 | 2005 | 15 |
| 6 | 2006 | 22 |
| 6 | 2007 | 24 |
| 5 | 2008 | 35 |
| 4 | 2009 | 46 |
| 7 | 2010 | 29 |
| 3 | 2011 | 31 |
| 2 | 2012 | 19 |
| 2 | 2013 | 19 |
| 2 | 2014 | 16 |
| 2 | 2015 | 16 |
| 2 | 2016 | 18 |
| 1 | 2017 | 16 |
| 1 | 2018 | 14 |
| 3 | 2019 | 9 |
| 4 | 2020 | 14 |
| 9 | 2021 | 34 |
| 10 | 2022 | 41 |
| 6 | 2023 | 25 |
| 2 | 2024 | 8 |