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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	923.38 million tons/km		[26th of 153]
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Aircraft departures	122,300		[28th 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
Container port traffic	2,867,909 TEU		[25th 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: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
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	73,506 km		[14th 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	362,099 km		[7th 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	288,593 km		[4th 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 container 1, petroleum tanker 2
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	32,226 Dwt		[119th 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
Motor vehicles	146 motor vehicles per 100 p		[54th of 134]
DEFINITION: Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > All types condensate 100 km; gas 1,052 km; oil 847 km; refined products 1,354 km (2004)
DEFINITION: The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Pipelines > Total length	3,353 km		[51st of 120]
DEFINITION: Total length of all pipelines
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Ports and harbors Cape Town, Durban, East London, Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha
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: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Rail usage statistics > Distance travelled by rail per inhabitant in km/year Kilometres/year	200		[29th of 38]
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail usage statistics > Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers > Billion tonne-kilometres	108.51		[9th of 29]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Railways > A note in addition, South Africa has an electrified 1.065-m gauge commuter rail system, with a total length of 1,254 km, which serves Johannesburg-Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, East London, and Port Elizabeth (2001)
DEFINITION: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns	60
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	67.31 %		[29th 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: Wikipedia: Speed limit
Vehicle abundance	9.14 per square km		[55th 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	47		[6th of 44]
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SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

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