Airports (per capita)
27.6
per 1 million people
6.7
per 1 million people
DEFINITION:
Total number of airports. Runways must be useable, but may be unpaved. May not have facilities for refuelling, maintenance, or air traffic control. Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011
Ranked 64th in 2007. 3 times more than Germany
Ranked 129th in 2007.
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m
2
71
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 81st.
Ranked 8th. 35 times more than Dominica
Airports > with paved runways > total (per $ GDP)
6.7
per $1 billion of GDP
0.1
per $1 billion of GDP
DEFINITION:
Total number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces) Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1 billion $ gross domestic product.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011
Ranked 14th in 2006. 58 times more than Germany
Ranked 156th in 2006.
Driving side of the road > Left or right
Left 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
Highways > Paved
393 km
230,735 km
DEFINITION:
total length of the paved parts of the highway system
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 100th in 1999.
Ranked 7th in 1999. 586 times more than Dominica
Highways > Paved (per capita)
5.5 km per 1,000 people
2.8 km per 1,000 people
DEFINITION:
total length of the paved parts of the highway system Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 14th in 1999. 95% more than Germany
Ranked 27th in 1999.
Highways > Total
780 km
230,735 km
DEFINITION:
total length of the highway system
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 109th in 1999.
Ranked 11th in 1999. 295 times more than Dominica
Highways > Total (per capita)
10.9 km per 1,000 people
2.8 km per 1,000 people
DEFINITION:
total length of the highway system Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 9th in 1999. 3 times more than Germany
Ranked 69th in 1999.
Highways > Unpaved
387 km
0 km
DEFINITION:
total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 96th in 1999.
Ranked 112nd in 1999.
Highways > Unpaved (per capita)
5.4 km per 1,000 people
0 km per 1,000 people
DEFINITION:
total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 10th in 1999.
Ranked 108th in 1999.
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea
none
DEFINITION:
Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt
1,252,537 Dwt
14,261,476 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 53rd in 2007.
Ranked 14th in 2007. 10 times more than Dominica
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt (per capita)
17,303.6 Dwt per 1,000 people
173.1 Dwt per 1,000 people
DEFINITION:
Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 14th in 2007. 99 times more than Germany
Ranked 52nd in 2007.
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt (per $ GDP)
3,670.8 Dwt per million $ of GDP
4.5 Dwt per million $ of GDP
DEFINITION:
Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship Per $ GDP figures expressed per million $ gross domestic product
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 7th in 2006. 814 times more than Germany
Ranked 77th in 2006.
Merchant marine > Total > GRT
716,435 GRT
12,085,484 GRT
DEFINITION:
GRT=Gross Register Tonnage
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 60th in 2007.
Ranked 13th in 2007. 16 times more than Dominica
Merchant marine > Total > GRT (per $ GDP)
2,116.9 GRT per million $ of GDP
3.8 GRT per million $ of GDP
DEFINITION:
GRT=Gross Register Tonnage Per $ GDP figures expressed per million $ gross domestic product
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 7th in 2006. 558 times more than Germany
Ranked 80th in 2006.
Merchant marine > total (per $ GDP)
160.1
per $1 billion of GDP
0.1
per $1 billion of GDP
DEFINITION:
1000 GRT or over Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1 billion $ gross domestic product.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011
Ranked 8th in 2006. 1176 times more than Germany
Ranked 101st in 2006.
Ports and harbors
Portsmouth, Roseau
Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Luebeck, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart
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
Travel services > % of commercial service exports
67.8 %
19.62 %
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 26th in 2005. 2 times more than Germany
Ranked 108th in 2005.
Vehicle abundance
7.88 per square km
124.34 per square km
DEFINITION:
Vehicles per populated land areaLand Area (in km2)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 58th.
Ranked 4th. 15 times more than Dominica
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