Transport and infrastructure in Senegal
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Senegal with the average of all countries in Africa. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 16,665 km. Theoretically, this is 1.02 meter for each of the 16.30 millions inhabitants of the country. Senegal hereby ranks 205th in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.06 meters of railway tracks per person Senegal come 104th worldwide.
The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 531 km long coastline.
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Senegal | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 16,700 km | 1,022.62 km | 84.72 m |
Railroads | 900 km | 55.60 km | 4.61 m |
Waterways | 1,000 km | 61.36 km | 5.08 m |
Commercial harbors | 32 | 1.96 | 0.000 |
Airports | 20 | 1.23 | 0.102 |
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 |