NationMaster - Malawian Transportation statistics

Aircraft departures	4,700		[118th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m	4		[51st of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	1		[87th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m	15		[47th of 137]
Highways > Paved	5,254 km		[77th of 171]
Highways > Total	28,400 km		[69th of 181]
Motor vehicles	0 motor vehicles per 100 p		[134th of 134]
Ports and harbors Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km	25.03 million passenger-km	...	[67th of 83]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	45.02 %	...	[48th of 163]
Roads, total network > km	15,451 km	...	[60th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	6,956 km		[94th of 205]
Roadways > Total	15,451 km		[119th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved	8,495 km		[99th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River remain dormant
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	67.33 %	...	[29th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports	35.16 %	...	[31st of 153]
Vehicle abundance	0.6 per square km		[112nd of 141]
Waterways	700 km		[74th of 106]
Waterways > A note on Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and Shire Riverall

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Malawi, Republic of Malawi

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