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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	5,802.44 million tons/km		[9th of 153]
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Aircraft departures	785,700		[4th of 155]
DEFINITION: Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	95		[6th of 139]
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
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m	82		[5th of 117]
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
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	3		[54th of 99]
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
Cars	469 per 1,000 people		[8th of 18]
DEFINITION: Cars per 1,000 people (1999).
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Container port traffic	3,839,739 TEU		[20th of 63]
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.		View time series
SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002 (CD ROM)
Driving side of the road > Left or right	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 Development Indicators database
Highways > Paved	894,000 km		[2nd of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Total	894,000 km		[4th of 118]
DEFINITION: total length of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Highways > Unpaved	0 km		[63rd of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Ships by type cargo 4, chemical tanker 9, liquefied gas 4, passenger 2, petroleum tanker 10, roll on/roll off 2, short-sea passenger 4
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		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt	7,533,631 Dwt		[26th of 157]
DEFINITION: Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > All types gas 14,232 km; oil 3,024 km; refined products 4,889 km (2004)
DEFINITION: The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail usage statistics > Passenger-km of rail transport, in billion/year > Billion passenger-kilometres	78.31		[5th of 31]
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns	50
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; territorial dispute between Suriname and French Guiana; territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land); Matthew and Hunter Islands, east of New Caledonia, claimed by France and Vanuatu
DEFINITION: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Speed limit
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	36.68 %		[84th of 153]
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).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Vehicle abundance	60 per square km		[13th of 141]
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 Development Indicators database
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations > participating countries > Code	2		[43rd of 44]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

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