NationMaster - Papua New Guinean Transportation statistics

Aircraft departures	29,800		[55th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m	4		[50th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	10		[28th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m	62		[19th of 137]
Highways > Paved	686 km		[126th of 171]
Highways > Total	19,600 km		[78th of 181]
Motor vehicles	13 motor vehicles per 100 p		[101st of 134]
Ports and harbors Kieta, Lae, Madang, Port Moresby, Rabaul
Ports and terminals	Kimbe, Lae, Rabaul
Railways	0 km		[44th of 86]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	3.5 %	...	[138th of 163]
Roads, total network > km	19,600 km	...	[87th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	686 km		[164th of 205]
Roadways > Total	19,600 km		[109th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved	18,914 km		[69th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international seeks assistance from Australia to control illegal cross-border activities from primarily Indonesia, including smuggling, drug trafficking, and Indonesian squatters and secessionists
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	1.28 %	...	[133rd of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports	4.83 %	...	[131st of 153]
Vehicle abundance	0.27 per square km		[124th of 141]
Waterways	10,940 km		[12th of 106]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; World Development Indicators database; 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: Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.

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