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Transport > Railways Stats: compare key data on Canada & Liberia

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  • A note: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
  • Standard gauge: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
    Standard gauge=1.435-m gauge
  • Standard gauge > Per $ GDP: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
    Standard gauge=1.435-m gauge Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1 billion $ gross domestic product.
  • Standard gauge per million: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
    Standard gauge=1.435-m gauge. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
  • Total: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
  • Total > Per $ GDP: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other. Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1 billion $ gross domestic product.
  • Total > Per capita: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Total per million: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
STAT Canada Liberia HISTORY
A note <a href=/country/ca><a href=/country/ca>Canada</a></a> has two major transcontinental freight railway systems: <a href=/encyclopedia/Canada><a href=/country/ca>Canadian</a></a> National (<a href=/encyclopedia/privatization>privatized</a> November 1995) and <a href=/encyclopedia/Canada><a href=/country/ca>Canadian</a></a> Pacific Railway; passenger service is provided by the government-operated firm VIA, which has no trackage of its own (2000 est.) in 1989, <a href=/country/li><a href=/country/li>Liberia</a></a> had three rail systems owned and operated by foreign <a href=/kp/steel>steel</a> and financial interests in conjunction with the <a href=/country/li>Liberian</a> <a href=/kp/Government>Government</a>; one of these, the Lamco Railroad, closed in 1989 after <a href=/kp/iron+ore>iron ore</a> production ceased; the other two were shut down by the civil war; large <a href=/encyclopedia/Structure-of-Atlas-Shrugged><a href=/encyclopedia/Structure-of-Atlas-Shrugged>sections</a></a> of the rail lines have been dismantled; approximately 60 km of railroad track was exported for scrap (2001)
Standard gauge 46,552 km
Ranked 2nd. 135 times more than Liberia
345 km
Ranked 23th.

Standard gauge > Per $ GDP 38.41 km per $1 billion of GD
Ranked 18th.
546.75 km per $1 billion of GD
Ranked 1st. 14 times more than Canada

Standard gauge per million 1,401.3 km
Ranked 1st. 15 times more than Liberia
93.94 km
Ranked 26th.

Total 46,552 km
Ranked 5th. 109 times more than Liberia
429 km
Ranked 115th.

Total > Per $ GDP 38.41 km per $1 billion of GD
Ranked 75th.
776.54 km per $1 billion of GD
Ranked 1st. 20 times more than Canada

Total > Per capita 1.41 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 2nd. 11 times more than Liberia
0.129 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 57th.

Total per million 1,401.3 km
Ranked 2nd. 12 times more than Liberia
116.81 km
Ranked 58th.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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