What is Carriers?

The list of aircraft carriers by country includes all aircraft carriers organized by country of origin and service. Where appropriate, a single ship may be listed under multiple countries. For the list of seaplane carriers and tenders see List of seaplane carriers by country.

Numbers of aircraft carriers operated

The table below does not include, aircraft carrying submarines, seaplane tenders, escort carriers or merchant aircraft carriers

Number of aircraft carriers by operating nation

Country	Total†	In service	In reserve	Decommissioned	Under construction	Never completed
United States	67	11	1	55	1	12
United Kingdom	40	1	1	38	2	12
Japan	20	0	0	20	0	4
France	8	1	0	6	1	7
Russia	5	1	0	4	0	2
Spain	3	2	0	1	0	0
Australia	3	0	0	3	0	0
Canada	3	0	0	3	0	0
Italy	2	2	0	0	0	2
India	2	1	0	1	3	0
Brazil	2	1	0	1	0	0
Argentina	2	0	0	2	0	0
Thailand	1	1	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	1	0	0	1	0	0
China	0	0	0	0	1	0
Germany	0	0	0	0	0	5

^{† Includes only carriers that have been commissioned into service}

From bottom to top: Principe de Asturias, amphibious assault shipUSS Wasp, USS Forrestal and light V/STOL carrier HMS Invincible, showing size differences of late 20th century carriers

From foreground to background: HMS Illustrious,USS Harry S. Truman, andUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Japanese seaplane carrierWakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids in 1914.

The Tripoli, a US Navy Iwo Jima-class helicopter carrier

Brazilian aircraft carrier São Paulo (A12)

Italian aircraft carrier Cavour (550)

Ripples appear along the fuselage of a U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye due to loads from landing on the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).

Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov

Varyag under tow in Istanbul

Semasa Battle Of Midway antara AMerika dengan Japan, Japan telah memiliki Carriers sebanyak 4 iaitu menguasai Amerika yang pada masa itu hanya memiliki 2 sahaja. Namun taktikal dan strategi perang yang betul, menjadikan Amerika Menang dalam peperangan tersebut. Malang juga buat Japan, apabila dua bandar perindustrian mereka pada masa itu iaitu Horishima dan Nagasaki di Bom oleh Amerika dengan menggunakan :

A replica of the Little Boy atomic bomb

A replica of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb