Transport and infrastructure in Portugal

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Portugal with the average of all countries in Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 82,900 km. Theoretically, this is 8.06 meter for each of the 10 millions inhabitants of the country. Portugal hereby ranks 67th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.30 meters of railway tracks per person Portugal come 53rd worldwide.

The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 1,793 km long coastline.

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	Portugal			Europe
	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
Roadways	82,900 km	8,061.21 km	898.88 m	6,708,300 km	11,155.86 km	1,111.61 m
Railroads	3,100 km	299.01 km	33.34 m	273,500 km	454.81 km	45.32 m
Waterways	210 km	20.42 km	2.28 m	53,100 km	88.37 km	8.81 m
Commercial harbors	624	60.68	0.007	15,036	25.00	0.002
Airports	64	6.22	0.694	3,737	6.21	0.001