Transport and infrastructure in Latvia

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Latvia with the average of all countries in Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 70,244 km. Theoretically, this is 36.94 meter for each of the 1.9 millions inhabitants of the country. Latvia hereby ranks 9th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.98 meters of railway tracks per person Latvia come 8th worldwide.

The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 498 km long coastline.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Latvia
Roadways	70,200 km	36,940.43 km	1,089.22 m
Railroads	1,900 km	978.15 km	28.84 m
Waterways	300 km	157.77 km	4.65 m
Commercial harbors	66	34.71	0.001
Airports	42	22.09	0.651

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Europe
Roadways	6,708,300 km	11,135.99 km	1,111.61 m
Railroads	273,500 km	454.00 km	45.32 m
Waterways	53,100 km	88.21 km	8.81 m
Commercial harbors	15,358	25.49	0.003
Airports	3,737	6.20	0.001

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