Transport and infrastructure in Laos

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Laos with the average of all countries in Asia. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 39,586 km. Theoretically, this is 5.44 meter for each of the 7.3 millions inhabitants of the country. Laos hereby ranks 103rd in a worldwide comparison.

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 Laos.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Laos
Roadways	39,600 km	5,440.96 km	167.17 m
Railroads	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Waterways	4,600 km	632.25 km	19.43 m
Commercial harbors	1	0.14	0.000
Airports	41	5.64	0.173

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Asia
Roadways	14,699,500 km	3,192.38 km	459.66 m
Railroads	345,900 km	75.12 km	10.82 m
Waterways	260,300 km	56.53 km	8.14 m
Commercial harbors	45,066	9.79	0.001
Airports	4,349	0.94	0.000

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