Transport and infrastructure in South Sudan

Our listing of the primary types of transport compares the infrastructure of South Sudan with the average of all countries in Africa. In many places, the traffic routes show considerable deficiencies and are often not in a particularly good condition.

In terms of the length of its rail network, South Sudan ranks 128th in the world with 0.02 meters per inhabitant. In total, the rail network is 248 kilometers long.

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Road traffic

The network of roads and highways has a total length of 90,200 km. For each of the country's 10.75 million inhabitants, this corresponds to 8.39 meters. This puts South Sudan in 63rd place in the global ranking. However, it is also important to note that the country's population density is very low at around 17 inhabitants per km². In this case, disproportionately long distances generally have to be covered to reach the more remote parts of the country.

With an average of 3614 traffic fatalities per year (2013 - 2019), road traffic in South Sudan is considered very dangerous. This corresponds to 33.9 accident fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 12.3 in the USA and 17.0 worldwide.

In South Sudan, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	South Sudan
Roadways	90,200 km	8,392.05 km	139.99 m
Railroads	200 km	23.07 km	0.38 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Commercial harbors	0	0.00	0.000
Airports	3	0.28	0.005

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
Roadways	2,997,800 km	2,151.40 km	98.86 m
Railroads	88,600 km	63.57 km	2.92 m
Waterways	68,400 km	49.09 km	2.26 m
Commercial harbors	7,905	5.67	0.000
Airports	413	0.30	0.000

Data sources used

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• UNCTAD
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)

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