Rail usage statistics by country

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Rail network divided by area of country

This article gives rail usage statistics by country according to the International Union of Railways and other sources.

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[edit] Passenger rail

All figures include passenger rail only, thus including suburban railways, but excluding metros.

[edit] Passenger-km of rail transport per year

Countries with more than 5 billion passenger-km

Country Billion
passenger-km		 Year
 China 961.23[1] 2011
India India 925 2010
European Union European Union 386.24 2009
Japan Japan 244.24 2009
Russia Russia 153.58 2009
France France 87.67 2009
Germany Germany 78.58 2010
United Kingdom United Kingdom 53.72 2010
Ukraine Ukraine 50.24 2010
Italy Italy 45.59 2009
Egypt Egypt 40.84 2008
South Korea South Korea 33.03 2010
Indonesia Indonesia 25.54 2004
Pakistan Pakistan 24.73 2008
Spain Spain 22.30 2010
Switzerland Switzerland 17.42 2009
United States United States 17.21[2] 2008
Iran Iran 16.81 2009
Poland Poland 15.72 2010
Netherlands Netherlands 15.40 2010
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 14.86 2009
South Africa South Africa 13.87 2007
Belgium Belgium 10.49 2009
Austria Austria 10.31 2010
Republic of China Taiwan 9.00 2010
Thailand Thailand 8.04 2007
Denmark Denmark 7.41 2010
Belarus Belarus 7.40 2009
Argentina Argentina 6.98 2003
Sweden Sweden 6.77 2010
Czech Republic Czech Republic 6.55 2010
Romania Romania 5.98 2009
Bangladesh Bangladesh 5.61 2008
Turkey Turkey 5.49 2010
Hungary Hungary 5.40 2010
 World 2,671 2009

Source: UIC database

[edit] Passengers carried in rail transport per year

Countries with more than 500 million passengers

Country Billion passengers Year
JapanJapan [3] 22.67 2010
IndiaIndia 8.03 2010
GermanyGermany 1.95 2010
ChinaPeople's Republic of China 1.86[1] 2011
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 1.33 2010
FranceFrance 1.14 2009
RussiaRussia 1.14 2009
South KoreaSouth Korea 1.06 2010
Italy Italy 0.64 2009
Spain Spain 0.57 2010
South Africa South Africa 0.53 2007

Source: UIC database

[edit] Modal ratio

Modal ratio of railway transport (excluding metro) compared to other modes of transport.

Country modal
ratio
[%]		 year
 Belgium 6.9 2006[4]
 Bulgaria 5.4 2006[4]
 Czech Republic 6.9 2006[4]
 Denmark 9.0 2006[4]
 Germany 7.7 2006[4]
 Estonia 1.7 2006[4]
 Ireland 5.1 2006[4]
 Greece 1.6 2006[4]
 Spain 5.3 2006[4]
 France 9.2 2006[4]
 Italy 5.5 2006[4]
 Latvia 5.1 2006[4]
 Lithuania 1.0 2006[4]
 Luxembourg 3.9 2006[4]
 Hungary 12.6 2006[4]
 Netherlands 8.3 2006[4]
 Austria 9.8 2006[4]
 Poland 6.7 2006[4]
 Portugal 4.4 2006[4]
 Romania 9.3 2006[4]
 Slovenia 3.2 2006[4]
 Slovakia 5.9 2006[4]
 Finland 4.9 2006[4]
 Sweden 8.2 2006[4]
 United Kingdom 5.9 2006[4]
 Croatia 4.4 2006[4]
 Macedonia 1.7 2006[4]
 Turkey 2.5 2006[4]
 Norway 4.5 2006[4]
 Switzerland 16.4 2006[4]
 United States 0.3 2004[4]
 Japan 27 2000[5]
 Indonesia 6.3 2005[6]

[edit] Passenger km per head of population

Only countries with five billion or more passenger km are included.

Country Kilometers/year
 Switzerland 2,422
 Japan 1,995
 France 1,370
 Denmark 1,329
 Austria 1,245
 Russia 1,220
 Ukraine 1,150
 Belarus 1,030
 Belgium 1,009
 Netherlands 940
 Germany 910
 Kazakhstan 880
 Italy 780
 India 777
 United Kingdom 770
 Hungary 690
 Czech Republic 660
 People's Republic of China 653
 South Korea 650
 Sweden 620
 Egypt 550
 Spain 460
 Poland 450
 Republic of China 410
 Romania 380
 Iran 180
 Argentina 170
 Pakistan 160
 Thailand 150
 Indonesia 110
 Turkey 80
 United States 80

[edit] Freight rail

[edit] Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers

Tonne-km of selected carriers in Europe, 2003

Countries with more than 10 billion tonne-km, only revenue-earning traffic is included (not gross traffic).

Country Billion tonne-kilometers Year
 China 2,947[1] 2011
 United States 2,469[7] 2010
 Russia 1,865 2009
 India 551 2009
 Canada 323[7] 2010
 European Union 277 2009
 Brazil 268 2008
 Ukraine 218 2010
 Kazakhstan 197 2009
 South Africa 113 2008
 Germany 106 2010
 Mexico 69.2 2009
 Australia 64.2 2010
 Belarus 42.7 2009
 Poland 34.3 2010
 France 22.8 2010
 Uzbekistan 22.2 2009
 United Kingdom 21.2 2007
 Austria 21.1 2009
 Japan 20.4 2009
 Iran 20.2 2010
 Latvia 17.2 2010
 Czech Republic 13.6 2010
 Lithuania 13.4 2010
 Italy 12.0 2010
 Argentina 12.0 2008
 Colombia 11.9 2008
 Turkmenistan 11.8 2009
 Sweden 11.5 2006
 Turkey 11.0 2010

Source: UIC database

[edit] Freight rail by million-ton

Countries with more than 100 million tonnes

Country Million-ton Year
 People's Republic of China 3,919[1] 2011
 United States 1,820[2] 2007
 Russian Federation 1,109 2009
 India 833 2009
 Brazil 460 2008
 Ukraine 433 2010
 Germany 415 2010
 Canada 289 2010
 Australia 261 2010
 Kazakhstan 248 2009
 South Africa 176 2007
 Belarus 134 2009
 Poland 128 2010
 Austria 110 2009
 United Kingdom 104 2007

Source: UIC database

[edit] Freight Modal share (in all kinds of transport)

Country modal
share
[%]		 year
 Russia 65 2006[4]
 Latvia 61 2008[8]
 People's Republic of China 58 2006[4]
 Switzerland 54 2008[8]
 Estonia 45 2008[8]
 US 42 2006[4]
 Lithuania 42 2008[8]
 Austria 37 2008[8]
 Sweden 35 2008[8]
 Finland 27 2008[8]
 Poland 24 2008[8]
 Czech Republic 23 2008[8]
 Slovakia 23 2008[8]
 Germany 22 2008[8]
 Bulgaria 21 2008[8]
 Hungary 21 2008[8]
 Japan 20 2000[5]
 Romania 19 2008[8]
 EU 18 2008[8]

[edit] Freight rail by tonne-kilometer per capita

Country Tonne-kilometer per capita
 Russia 12,599
 Canada 10,517
 United States 9,165
 Australia 2,308
 People's Republic of China 2,150
 Switzerland 1,670
 Germany 1,060
 European Union 782

[edit] Brief railway statistics by country

An important stage to use the brief traffic data according to UIC in 2007 and (List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita).

Rank Country area pop Av GDP Rail co Net km Dbl km El km HSR km Loco. No. pkm tkm HS. PKm train weight Pass. % Frt. % Pass/ pop % P. fare F. tariff Elec % income %
1  Russia 17.09 143 16 RZD 128 36 48 1.3 20101 173 2090 14 2528 42 67 9.1 4 2 80 107
2  Germany 0.36 82 35 DB 34 18 20 1.2 74 91 22 410 10 17 22.4 11 3 60 109
3  France 0.55 62 34 SNCF 29 16 14 1.8 81 40 48 496 16.8 12 4 105
4  Japan 0.38 127 34 JR 20 8 12 2.5 253 23 79 368 29 69.6 100 124
5  South Korea 0.1 48 28 KNR 3 1 2 0.32 32 11 10 472 20.4 20 106
6  UK 0.24 61 37 NR 16 5 0.3 48 21
7  Taiwan 0.036 23 31 TRA 1 0.67 0.69 0.33 9 1 77
8  Spain 0.51 45 31 Renfe 15 5 9 1.27 21 11 4 105
9  Italy 0.3 59 31 FS 16 7 12 0.82 45 21 9 96
10  Turkey 0.78 74 13 TCDD 9 04 1.9 0.25 6 10 572 24 69
11  Switzerland 0.04 8 43 SBB 4 2 3 15 13 442 40.9 103
12  Iran 1.6 71 11 RAI 7 1 0.15 0.25 400 13 21 0 1088 4 7 0.3 0.4 2 1 62
13  USA 9.6 302 47 AMTK 227 2820 5254 42 34 2 1 128
14  Egypt 1 73 6 ENR 5 1.5 0.07 41 4 6.1 80
15  India 3.28 1132 3 IR 63 17.4 17.8 696 481 1614 5.5 2 8
16  China 9.6 1342 6 CR 91 33 36 5 19000 876 2764 46
17  World 149 6400 10 UN 900 250 240 9 2468 9486 178 1677 10 20 50
18  Poland 0.31 38 17 PKP 19 9 12
19  South Africa 1.22 48 10 SAR 24 2 8 3421 14 109 2700 11
20  Kazakhstan 2.72 16 11 KTZ 14 5 4 1727 14 191
21  Brazil 8.54 189 10 29 0.5 2394 232
22  Pakistan .796 169 3 PR 7 0.3 544 26 6
23  Austria 0.08 40 OBB
24  Morocco 0.44 32 4 ONCFM 2 0.6 1 4 6 915 0.8 89
25  [[|]] UN

[edit] See also

[edit] Source

[edit] References

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