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Southeast Asia > Laos > Transportation

LAO TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air transport, freight > million tons per km 2.48 million tons/km Time series [110th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried 293,442 Time series [117th of 164]
Airports 42 Time series [104th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Right side
Highways > Paved 9,664 km Time series [38th of 113]
Highways > Total 21,716 km Time series [51st of 118]
Pipelines refined products 540 km Time series
Ports and harbors none Time series
Railways 0 km [54th of 86]
Railways > Total 0 km Time series [161st of 220]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km 30 million ton-km Time series [48th of 52]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 14.41 % Time series [62nd of 163]
Roads, total network > km 31,210 km Time series [52nd of 172]
Roadways > Paved 4,010 km Time series [41st of 81]
Roadways > Total 29,811 km Time series [37th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved 25,801 km Time series [17th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
demarcation of boundaries with Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam is largely complete, but with Thailand several areas including Mekong River islets remain in dispute; ongoing disputes with Thailand and Vietnam over squatters; concern among Mekong Commission members that China's construction of dams on the Mekong River will affect water levels
Vehicle abundance 0.1 per square km [136th of 141]
Waterways 4,600 km Time series [8th of 165]
Waterways > A note
primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,897 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World standards on users.pandora.be; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Laos, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, lao people’s democratic republic, lao people's dem rep., lao people's dem. rep., lao people's dem., Lao PDR, Lao People's Dem. Rep.

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