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 12.65 meter for each of the 59.31 millions inhabitants of the country. South Africa hereby ranks 40th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.35 meters of railway tracks per person South Africa come 47th worldwide.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	South Africa
Roadways	750,000 km	12,645.70 km	615.21 m
Railroads	21,000 km	353.84 km	17.21 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Commercial harbors	103	1.74	0.000
Airports	407	6.86	0.334

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
Roadways	3,002,100 km	2,239.71 km	99.00 m
Railroads	89,000 km	66.41 km	2.94 m
Waterways	50,100 km	37.35 km	1.65 m
Commercial harbors	7,482	5.58	0.000
Airports	3,158	2.36	0.000

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