Aircraft departures
227,200
700
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 18th. 324 times more than Niger
Ranked 145th.
Air transport, freight > million tons per km
4,115.85 million tons/km
7.36 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 10th in 2001. 558 times more than Niger
Ranked 108th in 2001.
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
4
6
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 64th.
Ranked 51st. 50% more than Netherlands
Airports > With paved runways > 2438 to 3047 m
8
2
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 36th. 3 times more than Niger
Ranked 82nd.
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m
2
14
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 113rd.
Ranked 52nd. 6 times more than Netherlands
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
Highways > Paved
104,850 km
798 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 13th in 1999. 130 times more than Niger
Ranked 91st in 1999.
Highways > Paved (per capita)
6.6 km per 1,000 people
0.1 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 10th in 1999. 94 times more than Niger
Ranked 107th in 1999.
Highways > Total
116,500 km
10,100 km
DEFINITION:
total length of the highway system
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ranked 19th in 1999. 11 times more than Niger
Ranked 73rd in 1999.
Highways > Total (per capita)
7.4 km per 1,000 people
0.9 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 20th in 1999. 7 times more than Niger
Ranked 107th in 1999.
Highways > Unpaved
11,650 km
9,302 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 43rd in 1999. 25% more than Niger
Ranked 54th in 1999.
Highways > Unpaved (per capita)
0.7 km per 1,000 people
0.8 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 82nd in 1999.
Ranked 77th in 1999. 11% more than Netherlands
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
none
Libya claims about 25,000 sq km in a currently dormant dispute; much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria , remains undemarcated, and ICJ ad hoc judges have been selected to rule on disputed Niger and Mekrou River islands; Lake Chad Commission continues to urge signatories Cameroon , Chad , Niger , and Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over the lake region, which remains the site of armed clashes among local populations and militias
DEFINITION:
Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Motor vehicles
417 motor vehicles per 100 p
4 motor vehicles per 100 p
DEFINITION:
Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE:
United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ranked 20th. 103 times more than Niger
Ranked 119th.
Ports and harbors
Amsterdam, Delfzijl, Dordrecht, Eemshaven, Groningen, Haarlem, IJmuiden, Maastricht, Rotterdam, Terneuzen, Utrecht, Vlissingen
none
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
14.36 %
35.63 %
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 130th in 2004.
Ranked 95th in 2004. 148% more than Netherlands
Vehicle abundance
196.48 per square km
0.2 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 1st. 981 times more than Niger
Ranked 129th.
Waterways > A note
47% of total route length is usable by craft of 1,000-metric-ton capacity or larger
the Niger River is navigable from Niamey to Gaya on the Benin frontier from mid-December through March
DEFINITION:
The individual names of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook, December 2003
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