Transport and infrastructure in Benin
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Benin with the average of all countries in Africa. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 16,000 km. Theoretically, this is 1.36 meter for each of the 11.80 millions inhabitants of the country. Benin hereby ranks 193rd in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.04 meters of railway tracks per person Benin come 118th worldwide.
The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 121 km long coastline.
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Benin | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 16,000 km | 1,355.80 km | 139.42 m |
Railroads | 400 km | 37.12 km | 3.82 m |
Waterways | 150 km | 12.71 km | 1.31 m |
Commercial harbors | 6 | 0.51 | 0.000 |
Airports | 6 | 0.51 | 0.052 |
Africa | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 3,002,100 km | 2,295.28 km | 99.00 m |
Railroads | 89,000 km | 68.06 km | 2.94 m |
Waterways | 50,100 km | 38.27 km | 1.65 m |
Commercial harbors | 7,095 | 5.42 | 0.000 |
Airports | 3,158 | 2.41 | 0.000 |