Transport and infrastructure in South Africa

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of South Africa with the average of all countries in Africa. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 750,000 km. Theoretically, this is 12.81 meter for each of the 58.56 millions inhabitants of the country. South Africa hereby ranks 40th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.36 meters of railway tracks per person South Africa come 47th worldwide.

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South Africa

 

Africa

  totalper 1 mio
inhabitants		per km2 total per 1 mio
inhabitants		per km2
Roadways 750,000 km12,807.76 km615.21 m 3,002,100 km2,295.28 km99.00 m
Railroads 21,000 km358.38 km17.21 m 89,000 km68.06 km2.94 m
Waterways 0 km0.00 km0.00 m 50,100 km38.27 km1.65 m
Commercial harbors 1031.760.000 7,0955.420.000
Airports 4076.950.334 3,1512.410.000