Aircraft departures
291,800
8,400
DEFINITION:
Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 13th. 34 times more than Estonia
Ranked 97th.
Air transport, freight > million tons per km
1,526.82 million tons/km
1.3 million tons/km
DEFINITION:
Air freight is the volume of freight, express, and diplomatic bags carried on each flight stage (operation of an aircraft from takeoff to its next landing), measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 18th in 2005. 1173 times more than Estonia
Ranked 121st in 2005.
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
150
1
DEFINITION:
Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 2nd. 149 times more than Estonia
Ranked 105th.
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m
245
3
DEFINITION:
Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 2nd. 81 times more than Estonia
Ranked 60th.
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
67
3
DEFINITION:
Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 5th. 21 times more than Estonia
Ranked 52nd.
Driving side of the road > Left or right
Right side
Right side
DEFINITION:
About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies . The following is a list of countries of the world and the side of the road the inhabitants drive on. Most of the people driving on the left side of the road use right-hand-drive vehicles and vice-versa.
SOURCE:
World standards on users.pandora.be
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; uncontested dispute with Denmark over Hans Island sovereignty in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
Russia continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint December 1996 technical border agreement with Estonia
DEFINITION:
Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Merchant marine > A note
includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Germany 3, Monaco 16, United Kingdom 1, United States 1 (2002 est.)
includes a foreign-owned ship registered here as a flag of convenience: Liberia 1 (2002 est.)
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt
2,815,416 Dwt
93,245 Dwt
DEFINITION:
Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 38th in 2007. 29 times more than Estonia
Ranked 102nd in 2007.
Motor vehicles
563 motor vehicles per 100 p
353 motor vehicles per 100 p
DEFINITION:
Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE:
United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ranked 8th. 59% more than Estonia
Ranked 26th.
Pipelines > All types
crude and refined oil 23,564 km; liquid petroleum gas 74,980 km (2003)
gas 859 km (2004)
DEFINITION:
The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 22 August 2006
Pipelines > Total length
98,544 km
859 km
DEFINITION:
Total length of all pipelines
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 22 August 2006
Ranked 3rd. 114 times more than Estonia
Ranked 83rd.
Ports and harbors
Becancour (Quebec), Churchill, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, New Westminster, Prince Rupert, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick), St. John's (Newfoundland), Sept Isles, Sydney, Trois-Rivieres, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Windsor
Haapsalu, Kunda, Muuga, Paldiski, Parnu, Tallinn
DEFINITION:
The major ports and harbors selected on the basis of overall importance to each country. This is determined by evaluating a number of factors (e.g., dollar value of goods handled, gross tonnage, facilities, and military significance).
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail usage statistics > Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers > Billion tonne-kilometres
338.66
10.31
DEFINITION:
SOURCE:
Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Ranked 5th. 32 times more than Estonia
Ranked 28th.
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns
50
50
DEFINITION:
SOURCE:
Wikipedia: Speed limit
Travel services > % of commercial service exports
26.04 %
30.41 %
DEFINITION:
Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited).
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 96th in 2005.
Ranked 91st in 2005. 17% more than Canada
Vehicle abundance
34.91 per square km
12.96 per square km
DEFINITION:
Vehicles per populated land area Units: Vehicles/Populated Land Area (in km2) Units: Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data.
SOURCE:
World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001
Ranked 24th. 169% more than Estonia
Ranked 44th.
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