Transport and infrastructure in Zambia

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Zambia with the average of all countries in Africa. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 67,671 km. Theoretically, this is 3.79 meter for each of the 17.86 millions inhabitants of the country. Zambia hereby ranks 129th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.18 meters of railway tracks per person Zambia come 68th worldwide.

The given length of waterways and number of harbours are only refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. There is no direct access to the open sea in Zambia.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Zambia
Roadways	67,700 km	3,788.75 km	89.92 m
Railroads	3,100 km	175.02 km	4.15 m
Waterways	2,250 km	125.97 km	2.99 m
Commercial harbors	1	0.06	0.000
Airports	88	4.93	0.117

	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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