Rail transport - Rail lines

Rail lines are the length of railway route available for train service, irrespective of the number of parallel tracks.

Rail lines (km)

	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Cambodia	601
China	58,656	62,200	66,239	72,487	85,843	79,306	85,320	89,966	91,675	93,742	96,353	1,02,462	1,06,235	1,09,767
हांगकांग		113												230
Indonesia			4,684	4,828	4,861	5,107	5,196	5,357	5,384	4,749	5,483	5,483
Japan			20,140	20,087
Republic of Korea	3,123	3,392	3,618	3,637	3,650	3,666	3,668	3,944	4,071	4,071	4,200	4,109	4,285	4,309
Malaysia	1,636	1,667	2,210	2,250						2,773	1,655	1,655	1,655	1,655
Mongolia	1,810	1,810	1,814	1,815	1,810	1,810	1,823	1,810	1,810	1,810	1,810	1,814	1,821	1,821
Philippines								509	509
Thailand	4,044		4,458	4,458				3,742	3,742	4,092
Viet Nam	3,142	3,147	2,577	2,347	2,347	2,347	3,186	3,186	2,581	2,367	2,382	2,481	3,159	3,159
Albania	440	423
Armenia	843		826				703	703	679	686	698	698	698	698
Austria	5,665	5,782	5,351	4,917	4,985	4,950	4,956	4,937	4,917	4,953	4,955	4,968	4,966	4,962
Azerbaijan	2,116	2,122	2,079	2,079	2,068	2,068	2,066	2,068	2,074	2,132	2,133	2,140	2,239	2,139
Belarus	5,512	5,498	5,482	5,482	5,462	5,469	5,470	5,470	5,459	5,459	5,459	5,459	5,454	5,474
Belgium	3,471	3,544	3,582		3,592		3,631	3,607	3,602	3,605	3,607	3,615	3,615	3,612
Bosnia and Herzegovina	943	1,000	1,027	1,027	1,027	1,027	1,027	1,027	1,018	417	1,018	1,018
Bulgaria	4,320	4,154	4,097	4,072	4,070	4,032	4,023	4,019	4,029	4,030	4,030	4,030	4,029	4,031
Croatia	2,726	2,726	2,722	2,722	2,723	2,722	2,604	2,604	2,605	2,605	2,605	2,617	2,617	2,617
Czech Republic	9,365	9,513	9,469	9,470	9,468	9,459	9,458	9,467	9,463	9,408	9,406	9,396	9,377	9,357
Denmark	2,047	2,134
Estonia	968	959	787	792	792		1,018	1,034	1,034	1,033
Finland	5,854	5,732	5,919	5,944	5,944	5,944	5,944	5,923	5,926	5,926	5,926	5,923	5,918	5,918
France	29,330	28,470	29,929	30,071	29,406	29,979		28,866	29,237	29,248	28,241	28,157	27,872	27,716
Georgia	1,562	1,336	1,566	1,262	1,578	1,453	1,453	1,491	1,415	1,285	1,285	1,378	1,411	1,387
Germany	36,642	34,228	33,714	33,576	33,506	33,449	33,426	33,332	33,380	33,488	33,440	33,423	33,399	33,401
Greece	2,385	2,576	2,552	2,554	2,208	2,265	2,238	2,240	2,240	2,240	2,293	2,280	2,345	2,339
Hungary	8,005	7,950	7,903	7,878	7,895	7,895	7,895	7,896	7,749	7,752	7,588	7,588	7,588	8,037
Ireland	1,919	1,919	1,919	1,919	1,919	1,894	1,458	1,458	2,174	1,888	1,888	1,888	1,888	1,650
Italy	16,295	16,751	16,704	16,726	16,742	16,752	16,723	16,724	16,788	16,787	16,781	16,779	17,256	17,305
Kazakhstan	13,545	14,204	14,184	14,319	14,759	14,767	14,767	14,767	15,529	16,040	16,061	16,061	16,063	16,006
Kyrgyzstan	417	417	417	417	417	417	424	424	424	424	424	424	424	417
Latvia	2,331	2,270	1,897	1,865	1,864	1,859	1,859	1,860	1,860	1,860	1,860	1,860	1,859	1,859
Lithuania	1,905	1,771	1,767	1,767	1,767	1,767	1,767	1,877	1,911	1,911	1,911	1,911	1,911	1,919
Luxembourg	274	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	275	288	288	271	271
North Macedonia	699	699	699	699	699	699	699	683	683	683	683	683	683	683
Republic of Moldova	1,139	1,075	1,157	1,157	1,157	1,157	1,156	1,151	1,151	1,151	1,151	1,151	1,151	1,149
Montenegro		248	249	239	239	249	249	249	249	249	249	250
Netherlands	2,802	2,813	3,016								3,078	3,078	3,078	3,041
Norway	4,179	4,087		4,154			4,219	4,209	4,209	4,208	4,200		3,885	3,885
Poland	22,560	19,599	19,702	19,725	19,617	18,959	18,942	18,510	18,429	18,513	18,536	18,538	18,611	18,620
Portugal	2,814	2,839	2,842	2,794	2,541	2,544	2,546	2,546	2,546	2,546	2,546	2,526	2,526	2,527
Romania	11,364	10,781	10,777	10,777	10,777	10,768	10,770	10,770	10,766	10,766	10,765	10,759	10,769	10,769
Russian Federation	86,075	85,542	85,292	85,166	85,248	85,266	84,581	85,262	85,375	85,545	85,626	85,494	85,555	85,544
Serbia	3,809	3,809	3,809	3,809	3,809	3,809	3,809	3,809	3,736	3,736	3,724	3,724	3,333	3,348
Slovakia	3,662	3,626	3,622	3,624	3,631	3,631	3,627	3,626	3,626	3,626	3,627	3,629	3,627	3,626
Slovenia	1,201	1,228	1,228	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209	1,209
Spain	13,868	14,272	15,590	15,681	15,438	15,582	15,506	15,711	15,650	15,559	15,618	15,718	15,848	15,963
Sweden	10,698	9,867	9,968	10,014	9,944	9,765	9,689	9,716	9,684	9,684	9,708	9,701	9,711	9,714
Switzerland	3,216	3,399	3,574	3,551	3,558	3,611	4,019	3,976	4,034	4,051	4,047	3,647	3,672	4,122
Tajikistan	533	617	621	621	608	587	597	597	620	620	620	620	662	620
Turkey	8,671	8,697	9,594	9,642	9,642	9,718	10,087	10,131	10,131	10,207	10,315	10,378	10,378	10,546
Turkmenistan	2,521	2,529	3,115	3,115	3,115	3,115	3,115	6,230	6,230	7,680	7,680
Ukraine	22,302	22,001	21,705	21,665	21,643	21,626	21,626	20,975	21,603	21,626	21,626	21,626	21,626
United Kingdom	16,992		15,888	16,210	15,847	15,861	16,532	16,245	16,257	16,294	16,295	16,295	16,351	16,179
Uzbekistan	3,645	4,014	4,227	4,258	4,192	4,186	4,202	4,238	4,304	4,642	4,642	4,735	4,732	4,732
Argentina		3,150				18,097	18,097		17,609	17,609	17,866	17,866
Chile	2,035	2,120								2,057	2,396	2,396	2,396	2,396
Costa Rica	581
Cuba	4,252	4,065
Ecuador	956
El Salvador	547
Guatemala	903
Panama	485
Paraguay	441
Uruguay	2,993	2,993					1,498	1,498	1,498	1,498	1,498	1,498	1,498	1,498
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	336	336
Algeria	3,973	3,572	3,664	4,226	4,175		3,800	3,800	3,843	4,016	4,016	4,020		4,001
Djibouti	781
Egypt	5,062	5,195	5,195					5,153	5,153
Iran	6,042	7,131	8,217	8,368	8,368	8,593	8,560	8,560	8,576	9,021	9,327	9,454	9,454	9,455
Iraq	2,603	1,898	2,138				2,370
Israel	669	910	1,034	1,079	1,143	1,153	1,194	1,277	1,340	1,495	1,521	1,599	1,619	1,720
Morocco	1,907	1,907	2,109	2,109	2,109	2,109	2,109	2,109	2,109	2,109	2,295	2,295	2,295	2,295
Saudi Arabia	958	1,020	1,412							2,620	2,939
Syrian Arab Republic	1,771	2,043	2,139
Tunisia	2,152	1,956	2,165		1,867		2,244	2,244	2,244	2,165	1,777	1,777	1,777	1,777
United Arab Emirates											279	261	261	279
Canada							46,969	45,582	48,498	48,150	47,687	47,987	48,309	48,150
United States of America	1,94,077	1,94,025	1,94,431	1,94,136	1,53,517	1,54,322	1,52,933	1,51,735	1,51,270	1,50,966	1,50,462	1,49,489	1,48,750	1,48,553
Bangladesh	2,745	2,855	2,835	2,791	2,877	2,877	2,791	2,877	2,877	2,877	2,877	2,877
India	62,759	63,485	63,974	64,460	64,600	65,436	65,808	66,030	66,687	67,368	69,249	67,414	67,956	68,103
Pakistan	7,791	7,791	7,791	7,791	7,791	7,791	7,784	7,791	7,791	7,791	7,791	7,791
Sri Lanka				1,148	1,148	1,254		1,567	1,562	1,562	1,562	1,562
Botswana								886	886	886	886	886	886	886
Burkina Faso	622	622				518	518	518	518	518	518	518	518	518
Cameroon	1,016	982	977	977					1,004	884	884	884	884	884
Congo	900	795			893
Côte d'Ivoire	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639	639
Democratic Republic of the Congo	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641	3,641
Ethiopia									754	754	754
Gabon	731	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	648	648	648
Ghana	953
Kenya	2,634
Madagascar	883		673	673	673	673	673	673			673	673	673	673
Mali	734
Mauritania			728						728	728	728	728	728	728
Mozambique	3,114	3,070	3,116	3,116
Nigeria	3,557	3,528	3,528	3,528	3,528	3,528	3,528	3,528
Senegal	906
South Africa								20,953	20,953	20,953	20,953	20,953	20,953	20,953
Sudan	4,599	4,578	4,708	4,313	4,313	4,313	4,313				2,747	2,747	2,747
इस्वातिनी		300	300	300
United Republic of Tanzania	4,582			2,707						2,701
Uganda	259
Zambia										1,248	1,248	1,248
Zimbabwe											3,120	3,120	3,120

Rail lines (km)

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