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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	7.36 million tons/km		[112nd of 153]
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Aircraft departures	700		[144th 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	1		[119th 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 > 2438 to 3047 m	3		[63rd of 119]
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 > Over 3047 m	2		[51st of 119]
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	14		[20th 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
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m	20		[43rd of 137]
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
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right 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: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Highways > A note probably no more than 8,000 km of the total receive maintenance, the remainder being desert tracks (2000)
SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Paved	267 km		[104th of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Highways > Total	33,400 km		[41st 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	33,133 km		[23rd 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
Motor vehicles	3 motor vehicles per 100 p		[125th of 134]
DEFINITION: Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > All types	oil 205 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	205 km		[109th of 120]
DEFINITION: Total length of all pipelines
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Pipelines > Total length (per $ GDP)	47.841 km per $1 billion of GDP		[66th of 113]
Ports and harbors	none
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
Railways	0 km		[12th of 86]
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: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international civil war in Sudan overlaps into Chad as both states step up border patrols, leaving refugees and rebel groups in both countries; Chad serves as an important mediator in the Sudanese civil conflict; Chadian Aozou rebels reside in southern Libya; Lake Chad Commission continues to urge signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over lake region; Chad rejects Nigerian request to redemarcate boundary, the site of periodic cross-border incidents
DEFINITION: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	49.79 %		[54th 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	0.08 per square km		[138th 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

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