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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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Benin
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

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
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

The 1 airports in BeninCadjehoun Airport - the only public airport in Benin with further information on airlines and destinations

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