As of February 2022, there are 47 active aircraft carriers in the world operated by fourteen navies. The United States Navy has 11 large nuclear-powered fleet carriers—carrying around 80 fighters each—the largest carriers in the world; the total combined deck space is over twice that of all other nations combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_the_United_States_Navy
As of 2012: 11
There are muthiple carriers but the most many one is the light carrier they are 40 light carriers not sure and 8 huge carrier like yorktown some of the carrier sunk in leyte or the battle of leyte gulf and protect the philipines with small amount they are 25 light carriers at leyte gulf and the footage the enterprise visit was true he was going to resupply to pearl harbor not all light carriers are still alive some are sunk some are scrap
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The US Navy currently has 11 Carriers and a 12th currently undergoing pre-commissioning trials.
There are aircraft carriers all over the world. America has about 16 of various types. Many other countries also have aircraft carriers.
They are names of US aircraft carriers,
Northrop Grumman
I know the United States has 9 aircraft carriers. Rest of the world??
None were necessary since the British Isles provided plentiful air bases. However, in the Mediterranean theater, US escort carriers (aka jeep carriers or CVE's) were used to support amphibious landings. These were small aircraft carriers capable of operating about 30 aircraft each, which left the larger US fleet carriers with 70-80 aircraft each available for the Pacific theater.
American Aircraft Carriers are built by Newport News Shipbuilding, which is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumond.
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Four fleet carriers
Even if you exclude the smaller aircraft carriers in World War 2, there were still many more than 5 or 6. The US Navy commissioned 23 aircraft carriers of the Essex class during the war, not to mention others in US service, and those used by the British and Japanese navies.