Transport and infrastructure in Sri Lanka

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Sri Lanka with the average of all countries in Asia. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 114,093 km. Theoretically, this is 5.21 meter for each of the 21.92 millions inhabitants of the country. Sri Lanka hereby ranks 108th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.07 meters of railway tracks per person Sri Lanka come 92nd worldwide.

The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 1,340 km long coastline.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Sri Lanka
Roadways	114,100 km	5,205.21 km	1,738.96 m
Railroads	1,600 km	71.26 km	23.81 m
Waterways	160 km	7.30 km	2.44 m
Commercial harbors	96	4.38	0.001
Airports	18	0.82	0.274

	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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