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Railways, goods transported (million ton-km)

Compare railways, goods transported (million ton-km) across 50 countries or territories using one fixed 2021 World Bank reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
142,905.4million tonne-km
Median: 7,277.3million tonne-km
Countries Covered
50
with available data
Highest
Russian Federation
2,638,562.0million tonne-km
Lowest
Albania
25.1million tonne-km
Top 5 Countries
1Russian Federation2,638,562.0million tonne-km
2United States of America2,239,400.7million tonne-km
3India719,762.0million tonne-km
4Australia453,091.0million tonne-km
5Canada430,170.0million tonne-km
By Region
North America920,669.2million tonne-km(3 countries)
Oceania228,767.5million tonne-km(2 countries)
Other196,720.7million tonne-km(14 countries)
Asia152,380.8million tonne-km(5 countries)
Europe16,263.5million tonne-km(25 countries)
Key Findings
  • 50 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite million tonne-km observation in the fixed 2021 slice.
  • Russian Federation has the highest published value (2.63856e+06 million tonne-km).
  • Albania has the lowest published value (25.1151 million tonne-km).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (25.1million tonne-km)High (2,638,562.0million tonne-km)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 142,905.4million tonne-km)

North America (3)
Oceania (2)
Other (14)
Asia (5)
Europe (25)
Africa (1)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Goods transported by railway are the volume of goods transported by railway, measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2021 World Bank slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Goods transported by railway are the volume of goods transported by railway, measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Russian Federation2,638,562.0million tonne-km
2United States of America2,239,400.7million tonne-km
3India719,762.0million tonne-km
4Australia453,091.0million tonne-km
5Canada430,170.0million tonne-km
6Germany123,067.0million tonne-km
7Mexico92,437.0million tonne-km
8Poland54,387.0million tonne-km
9Belarus44,478.2million tonne-km
10France35,751.3million tonne-km
11Islamic Republic of Iran32,920.0million tonne-km
12Uzbekistan24,619.0million tonne-km
13Italy24,262.0million tonne-km
14Sweden23,246.0million tonne-km
15Austria21,780.9million tonne-km
16Mongolia18,345.0million tonne-km
17Czech Republic16,326.0million tonne-km
18Türkiye15,900.0million tonne-km
19Lithuania14,566.0million tonne-km
20Switzerland12,024.0million tonne-km
21Hungary11,345.6million tonne-km
22Finland10,749.0million tonne-km
23Spain10,299.0million tonne-km
24Slovakia8,580.0million tonne-km
25Latvia7,366.6million tonne-km
26Netherlands7,188.0million tonne-km
27South Korea6,757.0million tonne-km
28Azerbaijan5,316.0million tonne-km
29Slovenia4,937.0million tonne-km
30Bulgaria4,658.0million tonne-km
31New Zealand4,444.0million tonne-km
32Norway4,305.0million tonne-km
33Georgia3,322.0million tonne-km
34Croatia3,172.0million tonne-km
35Morocco3,148.0million tonne-km
36Serbia2,925.0million tonne-km
37Portugal2,699.0million tonne-km
38Estonia2,128.0million tonne-km
39United Arab Emirates1,380.0million tonne-km
40Israel1,085.0million tonne-km
41Kyrgyzstan1,003.0million tonne-km
42Cameroon874.1million tonne-km
43Moldova, Republic of664.5million tonne-km
44Greece579.0million tonne-km
45Tunisia413.3million tonne-km
46The Republic of North Macedonia375.4million tonne-km
47Democratic Republic of the Congo192.0million tonne-km
48Luxembourg176.0million tonne-km
49Ireland70.0million tonne-km
50Albania25.1million tonne-km
Showing 50 of 50 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2021).

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