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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	781.47 million tons/km		[28th of 153]
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Aircraft departures	266,200		[16th 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	11		[38th 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	27		[15th 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	2		[60th 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	481 per 1,000 people		[6th of 18]
DEFINITION: Cars per 1,000 people (1999).
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Container port traffic	1,613,475 TEU		[35th 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	Left 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	57,809 km		[21st 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	92,053 km		[16th 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	34,244 km		[19th 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 bulk 3, cargo 2, container 1, petroleum tanker 2, roll on/roll off 1
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
Motor vehicles	560 motor vehicles per 100 p		[9th of 134]
DEFINITION: Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ports and harbors Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Tauranga, Wellington
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).		View time series
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns	50
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international territorial claim in Antarctica (Ross Dependency)
DEFINITION: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Speed limit
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	59.28 %		[40th 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	25.26 per square km		[30th 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
Waterways > A note of little importance in satisfying total transportation requirements
DEFINITION: The individual names of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water.
SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations > participating countries > Code	48		[5th of 44]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

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