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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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Madagascar
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

	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

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