The CIA World Factbook Edition 1995 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 1995 edition carries it in 242 entries, in its Transportation section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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World
1 entryAfrica
57 entriesAlgeria
- total:
- 95,576 km
- paved:
- concrete, bituminous 57,346 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, earth 38,230 km
Angola
- total:
- 73,828 km
- paved:
- bituminous-surface 8,577 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel, improved earth 29,350 km; unimproved earth 35,901 km
Benin
- total:
- 8,435 km
- paved:
- 1,038 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone 2,600 km;
- improved earth 1,530 km;
- unimproved earth 3,267 km
Botswana
- total:
- 11,514 km
- paved:
- 1,600 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel 1,700 km;
- improved earth 5,177 km;
- unimproved earth 3,037 km
Burkina now Burkina Faso
- total:
- 16,500 km
- paved:
- 1,300 km
- unpaved:
- improved earth 7,400 km; unimproved earth 7,800 km (1985)
Burundi
- total:
- 5,900 km
- paved:
- 640 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 2,260 km; improved, unimproved earth 3,000 km (1990)
Cameroon
- total:
- 65,000 km
- paved:
- 2,682 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, improved earth 32,318 km; unimproved earth 30,000 km
Central African Republic
- total:
- 22,000 km
- paved:
- bituminous 458 km
- unpaved:
- improved earth 10,542 km; unimproved earth 11,000 km
Chad
- total:
- 31,322 km
- paved:
- bituminous 263 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 7,069 km; earth 23,990 km
Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 146,500 km
- paved:
- 2,800 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, improved earth 46,200 km; unimproved earth 97,500 km
Congo now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 11,960 km
- paved:
- 560 km
- unpaved:
- gravel or crushed stone 850 km;
- improved earth 5,350 km;
- unimproved earth 5,200 km
Cote D'ivoire now Cote d'Ivoire
- total:
- 46,600 km
- paved:
- 3,600 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, improved earth 32,000 km; unimproved earth 11,000 km
Eritrea
- total:
- 3,845 km
- paved:
- 807 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 840 km;
- improved earth 402 km;
- unimproved earth 1,796 km
Swaziland now Eswatini
- total:
- 2,853 km
- paved:
- 510 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel, stabilized earth 1,230 km; improved earth 1,113 km
Ethiopia
- total:
- 24,127 km
- paved:
- 3,289 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 6,664 km;
- improved earth 1,652 km;
- unimproved earth 12,522 km (1993)
The Gambia
- total:
- 3,083 km
- paved:
- 431 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 501 km; unimproved earth 2,151 km
Ghana
- total:
- 32,250 km
- paved:
- concrete, bituminous 6,084 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, improved earth 26,166 km
Guinea
- total:
- 30,100 km
- paved:
- 1,145 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 12,955 km (of which barely 4,500 are currently all-weather roads); unimproved earth 16,000 km (1987)
Lesotho
- total:
- 7,215 km
- paved:
- 572 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, stabilized earth 2,337 km;
- improved earth 1,806 km;
- unimproved earth 2,500 km (1988)
Liberia
- total:
- 10,087 km
- paved:
- 603 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 5,171 km (includes 2,323 km of private roads of rubber and timber firms, open to the public); earth 4,313 km
Madagascar
- total:
- 40,000 km
- paved:
- 4,694 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 811 km; other earth 34,495 km (est.)
Malawi
- total:
- 13,135 km
- paved:
- 2,364 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 251 km; earth, improved earth 10,520 km
Mali
- total:
- 15,700 km
- paved:
- 1,670 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, improved earth 3,670 km; unimproved earth 10,360 km
Mauritania
- total:
- 7,525 km
- paved:
- 1,685 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, otherwise improved 1,040 km; unimproved earth 4,800 km (roads, trails, tracks)
Morocco
- total:
- 59,474 km
- paved:
- 29,440 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, improved earth, unimproved earth 30,034 km
Mozambique
- total:
- 26,498 km
- paved:
- 4,593 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 829 km; unimproved earth 21,076 km
Niger
- total:
- 39,970 km
- paved:
- bituminous 3,170 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, laterite 10,330 km;
- earth 3,470 km;
- tracks 23,000 km
Nigeria
- total:
- 107,990 km
- paved:
- mostly bituminous-surface treatment 30,019 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, improved earth 25,411 km; unimproved earth 52,560 km
Rwanda
- total:
- 4,885 km
- paved:
- 880 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, sand and gravel 1,305 km; unimproved earth 2,700 km
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total:
- NA (mainland 107 km, Ascension NA, Tristan da Cunha NA)
- paved:
- 169.7 km (mainland 87 km, Ascension 80 km, Tristan da Cunha 2.70 km)
- unpaved:
- NA (mainland 20 km earth roads, Ascension NA, Tristan da Cunha NA)
Sao Tome And Principe now Sao Tome and Principe
- total:
- 300 km
- paved:
- 200 km
- unpaved:
- 100 km
note: roads on Principe are mostly unpaved and in need of repair
Sierra Leone
- total:
- 7,400 km
- paved:
- 1,150 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel 490 km; improved earth 5,760 km
Somalia
- total:
- 22,500 km
- paved:
- 2,700 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 3,000 km; improved, stabilized earth 16,800 km (1992)
South Africa
- total:
- 188,309 km
- paved:
- 54,013 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel, improved earth 134,296 km
Sudan
- total:
- 20,703 km
- paved:
- bituminous treated 2,000 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 4,000 km;
- improved earth 2,304 km;
- unimproved earth 12,399 km
Tanzania
- total:
- 81,900 km
- paved:
- 3,600 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 5,600 km; improved, unimproved earth 72,700 km
Uganda
- total:
- 26,200 km
- paved:
- 1,970 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 5,849 km; earth, tracks 18,381 km
Zambia
- total:
- 36,370 km
- paved:
- 6,500 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel, stabilized earth 7,000 km; improved, unimproved earth 22,870 km
Zimbabwe
- total:
- 85,237 km
- paved:
- 15,800 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel, stabilized earth 39,090 km;
- improved earth 23,097 km;
- unimproved earth 7,250 km
Antarctic Region
2 entriesFrench Southern And Antarctic Lands now French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- total:
- NA
- paved:
- NA
- unpaved:
- NA
South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands now South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- total:
- NA
- paved:
- NA
- unpaved:
- NA
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesBritish Indian Ocean Territory
- total:
- NA
- paved:
- short stretch of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
- unpaved:
- NA
China
- total:
- 1.029 million km
- paved:
- 170,000 km
- unpaved:
- gravel/improved earth 648,000 km; unimproved earth 211,000 km (1990)
India
- total:
- 1.97 million km
- paved:
- 960,000 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, earth 1.01 million km (1989)
Japan
- total:
- 1,111,974 km
- paved:
- 754,102 km (including 4,869 km of national expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, or earth 357,872 km (1991)
Korea, North now North Korea
- total:
- 30,000 km
- paved:
- 1,861 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, earth 28,139 km (1992)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 63,200 km
- paved:
- expressways 1,550 km
- unpaved:
- NA
- undifferentiated:
- national highway 12,190 km; provincial, local roads 49,460 km (1991)
Russia
- total:
- 934,000 km (445,000 km serve specific industries or farms and are not available for common carrier use)
- paved and graveled:
- 725,000 km
- unpaved:
- 209,000 km (1 January 1994)
Sri Lanka
- total:
- 75,263 km
- paved:
- mostly bituminous treated 27,637 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel 32,887 km; improved, unimproved earth 14,739 km
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesBelize
- total:
- 2,710 km
- paved:
- 500 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 1,600 km;
- improved earth 300 km;
- unimproved earth 310 km
Dominican Republic
- total:
- 12,000 km
- paved:
- 5,800 km
- unpaved:
- gravel or improved earth 5,600 km; unimproved earth 600 km
El Salvador
- total:
- 10,000 km
- paved:
- 1,500 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 4,100 km; improved, unimproved earth 4,400 km
Honduras
- total:
- 8,950 km
- paved:
- 1,700 km
- unpaved:
- otherwise improved 5,000 km; unimproved earth 2,250 km
Nicaragua
- total:
- 15,286 km
- paved:
- 1,598 km
- unpaved:
- 13,688 km
note: there is a 368.5 km portion of the Pan-American Highway which is not in the total
Panama
- total:
- 8,530 km
- paved:
- 2,745 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 3,270 km; improved, unimproved earth 2,515 km
Saint Kitts And Nevis now Saint Kitts and Nevis
- total:
- 300 km
- paved:
- 125 km
- unpaved:
- otherwise improved 125 km; unimproved earth 50 km
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines now Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- total:
- 1,000 km
- paved:
- 300 km
- unpaved:
- improved earth 400 km; unimproved earth 300 km
Trinidad And Tobago now Trinidad and Tobago
- total:
- 8,000 km
- paved:
- 4,000 km
- unpaved:
- improved earth 1,000 km; unimproved earth 3,000 km
Turks And Caicos Islands now Turks and Caicos Islands
- total:
- 121 km (including 24 km tarmac)
- paved:
- NA
- unpaved:
- NA
Europe
46 entriesAustria
- total:
- 110,000 km
- paved:
- 35,000 km (including 1,554 km of autobahn)
- unpaved:
- mostly gravel and earth 75,000 km (1992)
Belgium
- total:
- 137,912 km
- paved:
- 129,639 km (including 1,667 km of limited access divided highway)
- unpaved:
- 8,273 km (1992)
Bosnia And Herzegovina now Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 21,168 km
- paved:
- 11,436 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 8,146 km; earth 1,586 km (1991)
Bulgaria
- total:
- 36,932 km
- paved:
- 33,904 km (including 276 km expressways)
- unpaved:
- earth 3,028 km (1992)
Finland
- total:
- 76,755 km
- paved:
- bituminous concrete, bituminous treated soil 47,588 km (318 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel 29,167 km (1992)
France
- total:
- 1,511,200 km
- paved:
- 811,200 km (including 7,700 km of controlled access divided highway)
- unpaved:
- 700,000 km (1992)
Ireland
- total:
- 92,327 km
- paved:
- 86,787 km (32 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 5,540 km (1992)
Italy
- total:
- 305,388 km
- paved:
- 277,388 km (6,940 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 23,000 km; earth 5,000 km (1992)
Luxembourg
- total:
- 5,108 km
- paved:
- 5,062 km (95 km of limited access divided highway)
- unpaved:
- 46 km (1992)
Netherlands
- total:
- 104,831 km
- paved:
- 92,251 km (2,118 km of expressway)
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 12,580 km (1992)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of now North Macedonia
- total:
- 10,591 km
- paved:
- 5,091 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 1,404 km; earth 4,096 km (1991)
Norway
- total:
- 88,922 km
- paved:
- 61,356 km (75 km of expressway)
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, earth 27,566 km (1990)
Poland
- total:
- 367,000 km (excluding farm, factory and forest roads)
- paved:
- 235,247 km (257 km of which are limited access expressways)
- unpaved:
- 131,753 km (1992)
Portugal
- total:
- 70,176 km
- paved and graveled:
- 60,351 km (519 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- earth 9,825 km
Serbia And Montenegro now Serbia and Montenegro
- total:
- 46,019 km
- paved:
- 26,949 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 10,373 km; earth 8,697 km (1990)
Sweden
- total:
- 135,859 km
- paved:
- 97,818 km (including 936 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel 38,041 km (1991)
United Kingdom
- total:
- 360,047 km (includes Northern Ireland)
- paved:
- 360,047 km (includes Northern Ireland; Great Britain has 3,100 km limited access divided highway)
Middle East
16 entriesIran
- total:
- 140,200 km
- paved:
- 42,694 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone 46,866 km;
- improved earth 49,440 km;
- unimproved earth 1,200 km
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 320,611 km
- paved:
- 29,915 km (including 862 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 290,696 km (1992)
West Bank
- total:
- NA
- paved:
- NA
- unpaved:
- NA
note: small road network; Israelis have developed many highways to service Jewish settlements
North America
5 entriesBermuda
- total:
- 210 km
- paved:
- 210 km
note: in addition, there are 400 km of paved and unpaved roads that are privately owned
Canada
- total:
- 849,404 km
- paved:
- 253,692 km (15,983 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel 595,712 km (1991)
Mexico
- total:
- 242,300 km
- paved:
- 84,800 km (including 3,166 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel and earth 157,500 km
Saint Pierre And Miquelon now Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- total:
- 120 km
- paved:
- 60 km
- unpaved:
- earth 60 km (1985)
United States
- total:
- 6,243,163 km
- paved:
- 3,633,520 km (including 84,865 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,609,643 km (1990)
Oceania
28 entriesAustralia
- total:
- 837,872 km
- paved:
- 243,750 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 228,396 km; unimproved earth 365,726 km
Cook Islands
- total:
- 187 km
- paved:
- 35 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 35 km;
- improved earth 84 km;
- unimproved earth 33 km (1980)
Fiji
- total:
- 3,300 km
- paved:
- 1,590 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 1,290 km; unimproved earth 420 km (1984)
Marshall Islands
- total:
- NA
note: paved roads on major islands (Majuro, Kwajalein), otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and tracks
Micronesia, Federated States Of now Federated States of Micronesia
- total:
- 226 km
- paved:
- 39 km (on major islands)
- unpaved:
- stone, coral, laterite 187 km
Northern Mariana Islands
- total:
- 381.5 km
- paved:
- NA
- unpaved:
- NA
- undifferentiated:
- primary 134.5 km;
- secondary 55 km;
- local 192 km (1991)
Palmyra Atoll
much of the road and many causeways built during the war are unserviceable and overgrown
Papua New Guinea
- total:
- 19,200 km
- paved:
- 640 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, crushed stone, stabilized earth 10,960 km; unimproved earth 7,600 km
Solomon Islands
- total:
- 1,300 km
- paved:
- 30 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 290 km; earth 980 km
note: in addition, there are 800 km of private logging and plantation roads of varied construction (1982)
Tonga
- total:
- 366 km
- paved:
- 272 km (198 km on Tongatapu; 74 km on Vava'u)
- unpaved:
- 94 km (usable only in dry weather)
Wallis And Futuna now Wallis and Futuna
- total:
- 120 km (Ile Uvea 100 km, Ile Futuna 20km)
- paved:
- 16 km (on Il Uvea)
- unpaved:
- 104 km (Ile Uvea 84 km, Ile Futuna 20 km)
South America
14 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 208,350 km
- paved:
- 57,000 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 39,500 km; improved/unimproved earth 111,850 km
Bolivia
- total:
- 42,815 km
- paved:
- 1,865 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 12,000 km; improved/unimproved earth 28,950 km
Falkland Islands (islas Malvinas) now Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- total:
- 510 km
- paved:
- 30 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 80 km; unimproved earth 400 km
Suriname
- total:
- 8,800 km
- paved:
- 500 km
- unpaved:
- bauxite, gravel, crushed stone 5,400 km; improved and unimproved earth 2,900 km
Venezuela
- total:
- 81,000 km
- paved:
- 31,200 km
- unpaved:
- gravel 24,800 km; earth and unimproved earth 25,000 km
Southeast Asia
15 entriesBrunei
- total:
- 1,090 km
- paved:
- bituminous 370 km (with another 52 km under construction)
- unpaved:
- gravel or earth 720 km
Burma now Burma (Myanmar)
- total:
- 27,000 km
- paved:
- bituminous 3,200 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, improved earth 17,700 km; unimproved earth 6,100 km
Cambodia
- total:
- 34,100 km (some roads in serious disrepair)
- paved:
- bituminous 3,000 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth 3,100 km; unimproved earth 28,000 km
Indonesia
- total:
- 119,500 km
- paved:
- NA
- unpaved:
- NA
- undifferentiated:
- provincial 34,180 km;
- district 73,508 km;
- state 11,812 km
Malaysia
- total:
- 29,028 km (Peninsular Malaysia 23,602 km, Sabah 3,782 km, Sarawak 1,644 km)
- paved:
- NA (Peninsular Malaysia 19,354 km mostly bituminous treated)
- unpaved:
- NA (Peninsular Malaysia 4,248 km)
Taiwan
- total:
- 20,041 km
- paved:
- bituminous, concrete pavement 17,095 km
- unpaved:
- crushed stone, gravel 2,371 km; graded earth 575 km
Thailand
- total:
- 77,697 km
- paved:
- 35,855 km (including 88 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- gravel, other stabilization 14,092 km; earth 27,750 km (1988)
Vietnam
- total:
- 85,000 km
- paved:
- 9,400 km
- unpaved:
- gravel, improved earth 48,700 km; unimproved earth 26,900 km
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1995, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/1995.