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Railroad lines, total length in km, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 32 countries was 10044 km. The highest value was in Russia: 85544 km and the lowest value was in Luxembourg: 271 km. The indicator is available from 1995 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: km; Source: The World Bank
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Countries Railroad lines, km, 2021 Global rank Available data
Russia 85544 1 1995 - 2021
Germany 33401 2 1995 - 2021
France 27716 3 1995 - 2021
Poland 18620 4 1995 - 2021
Italy 17305 5 1995 - 2021
UK 16179 6 1995 - 2021
Spain 15963 7 1995 - 2021
Romania 10769 8 1995 - 2021
Turkey 10546 9 1995 - 2021
Sweden 9714 10 1995 - 2021
Czechia 9357 11 1995 - 2021
Hungary 8037 12 1995 - 2021
Finland 5918 13 1995 - 2021
Belarus 5474 14 1995 - 2021
Austria 4962 15 1995 - 2021
Switzerland 4122 16 1995 - 2021
Bulgaria 4031 17 1995 - 2021
Norway 3885 18 1995 - 2021
Slovakia 3626 19 1995 - 2021
Belgium 3612 20 1995 - 2021
Serbia 3348 21 2000 - 2021
Netherlands 3041 22 1995 - 2021
Croatia 2617 23 1995 - 2021
Portugal 2527 24 1995 - 2021
Greece 2339 25 1995 - 2021
Lithuania 1919 26 1995 - 2021
Latvia 1859 27 1995 - 2021
Ireland 1650 28 1995 - 2021
Slovenia 1209 29 1995 - 2021
Moldova 1149 30 1995 - 2021
North Macedonia 683 31 1995 - 2021
Luxembourg 271 32 1995 - 2021


Definition: Rail lines are the length of railway route available for train service, irrespective of the number of parallel tracks.
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