Rail lines are the length of railway route available for train service, irrespective of the number of parallel tracks.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 622 | 622 | 518 | 518 | 518 | 518 | 518 | 518 | 518 | 518 | 518 | |||
| Côte d'Ivoire | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 | 639 |
| Ghana | 953 | |||||||||||||
| Mali | 734 | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 3,557 | 3,528 | 3,528 | 3,528 | 3,528 | 3,528 | 3,528 | 3,528 | ||||||
| Senegal | 906 |