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annual railway journeys kilometres per person per year*

Rank Territory Value127 Côte d'Ivoire 9.0128 Mozambique 7.4129 Tajikistan 6.6130 Angola 5.6131 Ghana 4.1132 Cambodia 3.3133 Democrat ic Republic of Congo 3.1134 Sudan 2.2135 Philippines 1.6136 Madagascar 0.6

MOST AND FEWEST RAIL PASSENGERS

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Rank Territory Value1 Japan 18762 Switzerland 17833 Belarus 14494 France 12255 Russian Federation 10616 Austria 10397 Ukraine 10348 Denmark 10249 Netherlands 88710 Germany 848

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In 2003 2.2 trillion kilometres weretravelled by train passengers. Of thistotal a fifth were in India, a fifth werein China, and a tenth were in Japan.

The world average for the number of

kilometres travelled by people peryear by train is 358 kilometres each.The unevenness of the realdistribution of kilometres travelled ishighlighted by the fact that 64territories (out of 200) do not have arail system. At the other extreme, anaverage of 1876 kilometres aretravelled by train each year by everyperson who lives in Japan.

• Data source: World Bank, World DevelopmentIndicators, 2005. Data are from 2003.

• Passenger kilometres are the number of railpassengers multiplied by the average length ofrail journey in each territory.

• *64 territories had no recorded rail system.• See website for further details.

Territory size shows the proportion of all train passengerkilometres travelled in the world that occur there.

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AVERAGE KILOMETRES BY TRAIN

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Indian Railways, 2006“lifeline to the nation”