Transport and infrastructure in Madagascar
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Madagascar with the average of all countries in Africa. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 31,640 km. Theoretically, this is 1.17 meter for each of the 26.97 millions inhabitants of the country. Madagascar hereby ranks 197th in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.03 meters of railway tracks per person Madagascar come 120th worldwide.
The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 4,828 km long coastline.
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Madagascar | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 31,600 km | 1,173.19 km | 53.87 m |
Railroads | 800 km | 31.00 km | 1.42 m |
Waterways | 600 km | 22.25 km | 1.02 m |
Commercial harbors | 28 | 1.04 | 0.000 |
Airports | 83 | 3.08 | 0.141 |
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 |