Transport and infrastructure in Germany

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Germany with the average of all countries in Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 625,000 km. Theoretically, this is 7.52 meter for each of the 83.13 millions inhabitants of the country. Germany hereby ranks 70th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.40 meters of railway tracks per person Germany come 42nd worldwide.

The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 2,389 km long coastline.

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	Germany			Europe
	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
Roadways	625,000 km	7,518.09 km	1,747.86 m	6,708,300 km	11,141.62 km	1,111.61 m
Railroads	33,600 km	404.05 km	93.94 m	273,500 km	454.23 km	45.32 m
Waterways	7,467 km	89.82 km	20.88 m	53,100 km	88.25 km	8.81 m
Commercial harbors	609	7.33	0.002	15,036	24.97	0.002
Airports	539	6.48	1.507	3,737	6.21	0.001