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Air transport, freight > million tons per km
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310.36 million tons/km
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[39th of 153]
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Aircraft departures
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11,300 |
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[90th of 155]
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DEFINITION: Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Container port traffic
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2,455,297 TEU
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[28th of 63]
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DEFINITION: Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes., and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units. |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 |
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Driving side of the road > Left or right
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Left side |
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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. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Highways > Paved
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91,860 km |
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[14th of 113]
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DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system |
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SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be |
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Highways > Total
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96,695 km |
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[21st of 118]
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DEFINITION: total length of the highway system |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Highways > Unpaved
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4,835 km |
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[67th of 113]
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DEFINITION: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Investment in transport with private participation > current US$
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240,000,000 $
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[10th of 30]
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DEFINITION: Investment in transport projects with private participation covers infrastructure projects in transport that have reached financial closure and directly or indirectly serve the public. Movable assets are excluded. The types of projects included are operations and management contracts, operations and management contracts with major capital expenditure, greenfield projects (in which a private entity or a public-private joint venture builds and operates a new facility), and divestitures. Investment commitments are the sum of investments in facilities and investments in government assets. Investments in facilities are the resources the project company commits to invest during the contract period either in new facilities or in expansion and modernization of existing facilities. Investments in government assets are the resources the project company spends on acquiring government assets such as state-owned enterprises, rights to provide services in a specific area, or the use of specific radio spectrums. Data are in current U.S. dollars. |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
Merchant marine > Note
includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Germany 9, Hong Kong 1, UAE 1 |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Merchant marine > Ships by type
cargo 13, container 1, petroleum tanker 1 |
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DEFINITION: Merchant marine may be defined as all ships engaged in the carriage of goods; or all commercial vessels (as opposed to all non-military ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.; or a grouping of merchant ships by nationality o |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Merchant marine > Total > Dwt
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227,478 Dwt |
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[89th of 157]
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DEFINITION: Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Merchant marine > Total > GRT
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162,280 GRT |
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[90th of 157]
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DEFINITION: GRT=Gross Register Tonnage |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Motor vehicles
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25 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[95th of 134]
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DEFINITION: Motor vehicles per 1,000 people |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
Ports and harbors
Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Trincomalee |
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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). |
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SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook |
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Travel services > % of commercial service exports
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28.25 %
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[95th of 153]
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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). |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Vehicle abundance
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9.59 per square km |
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[53rd of 141]
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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. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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