Transport and infrastructure in New Zealand

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of New Zealand with the average of all countries in the Australian continent. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 94,000 km. Theoretically, this is 19.12 meter for each of the 4.9 millions inhabitants of the country. New Zealand hereby ranks 28th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.84 meters of railway tracks per person New Zealand come 15th worldwide.

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	New Zealand			Australia
	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
Roadways	94,000 km	19,117.35 km	351.13 m	967,800 km	31,956.01 km	120.84 m
Railroads	4,100 km	839.54 km	15.42 m	37,500 km	1,237.84 km	4.68 m
Waterways	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m	2,000 km	66.04 km	0.25 m
Commercial harbors	113	22.98	0.000	692	22.85	0.000
Airports	123	25.02	0.459	544	17.96	0.000