The CIA World Factbook Edition 2018 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2018 edition carries it in 229 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2018 edition
- 229
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2024
Published as “Roadways” (2006 to 2024) and “Highways” (1990 to 2005).
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World
1 entryAfrica
55 entriesAlgeria
- total:
- 113,655 km (2010)
- paved:
- 87,605 km (includes 645 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 26,050 km (2010)
Botswana
- total:
- 17,916 km (2011)
note: includes 8,916 km of Public Highway Network roads (6,116 km paved and 2,800 km unpaved) and 9,000 km of District Council roads
Cameroon
- total:
- 51,350 km (2011)
- paved:
- 4,108 km (2011)
- unpaved:
- 47,242 km (2011)
note: there are 28,857 km of national roads
Chad
- total:
- 40,000 km (2011)
note: consists of 25,000 km of national and regional roads and 15,000 km of local roads; 206 km of urban roads are paved
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 153,497 km (2004)
- paved:
- 2,794 km (2004)
- unpaved:
- 150,703 km (2004)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 17,000 km (2006)
- paved:
- 1,212 km (2006)
- unpaved:
- 15,788 km (2006)
Cote d'Ivoire now Cote d'Ivoire
- total:
- 81,996 km (2007)
- paved:
- 6,502 km (2007)
- unpaved:
- 75,494 km (2007)
note: includes intercity and urban roads; another 20,000 km of dirt roads are in poor condition and 150,000 km of dirt roads are impassable
Egypt
- total:
- 137,430 km (2010)
- paved:
- 126,742 km (includes 838 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 10,688 km (2010)
Kenya
- total:
- 161,452 km (2017)
- paved:
- 14,420 km (8,500 km highways, 1,872 urban roads, and 4,048 rural roads) (2017)
- unpaved:
- 147,032 km (2017)
Mauritius
- total:
- 2,428 km (2015)
- paved:
- 2,379 km (includes 99 km of expressways) (2015)
- unpaved:
- 49 km (2015)
Morocco
- total:
- 58,395 km (2010)
- paved:
- 41,116 km (includes 1,080 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 17,279 km (2010)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total:
- 198 km (Saint Helena 138 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 20 km) (2002)
- paved:
- 168 km (Saint Helena 118 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2002)
- unpaved:
- 30 km (Saint Helena 20 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2002)
Senegal
- total:
- 16,496 km (2017)
- paved:
- 5,957 km (includes 72 km of expressways) (2017)
- unpaved:
- 10,539 km (2017)
South Sudan
- total:
- 7,000 km (2012)
note: most of the road network is unpaved and much of it is in disrepair; a 192-km paved road between the capital, Juba, and Nimule on the Ugandan border was constructed with USAID funds in 2012
Tunisia
- total:
- 19,418 km (2010)
- paved:
- 14,756 km (includes 357 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 4,662 km (2010)
Uganda
- total:
- 20,544 km (excludes local roads) (2017)
- paved:
- 4,257 km (2017)
- unpaved:
- 16,287 km (2017)
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
23 entriesBhutan
- total:
- 10,578 km
- paved:
- 2,975 km (includes 2,180 km of national highways)
- unpaved:
- 7,603 km (2013)
note: a more recent figure for 2015 lists 11,177 km for total roadway length, but no breakdown of paved or unpaved
British Indian Ocean Territory
note: short section of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
China
- total:
- 4,577,300 km (2015)
- paved:
- 4,046,300 km (includes 123,500 km of expressways) (2015)
- unpaved:
- 531,000 km (2015)
India
- total:
- 4,699,024 km (2015)
note: includes 96,214 km of national highways and expressways, 147,800 km of state highways, and 4,455,010 km of other roads
Japan
- total:
- 1,218,772 km (2015)
- paved:
- 992,835 km (includes 8,428 km of expressways) (2015)
- unpaved:
- 225,937 km (2015)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 100,428 km (2016)
- paved:
- 92,795 km (includes 4,193 km of expressways) (2016)
- unpaved:
- 7,633 km (2016)
Maldives
- total:
- 93 km (2018)
- paved:
- 93 km - 60 km in Male;
- 16 km on Addu Atolis;
- 17 km on Laamu (2018)
note: island roads are mainly compacted coral
Pakistan
- total:
- 263,942 km (2014)
- paved:
- 185,063 km (includes 708 km of expressways) (2014)
- unpaved:
- 78,879 km (2014)
Russia
- total:
- 1,283,387 km (2012)
- paved:
- 927,721 km (includes 39,143 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 355,666 km (2012)
Central America and the Caribbean
29 entriesCuba
- total:
- 60,858 km (2001)
- paved:
- 29,820 km (includes 639 km of expressways) (2001)
- unpaved:
- 31,038 km (2001)
El Salvador
- total:
- 6,979 km (2016)
- paved:
- 4,414 km (includes 341 km of expressways) (2016)
- unpaved:
- 2,565 km (2016)
Guatemala
- total:
- 17,621 km (2016)
- paved:
- 7,489 km (2016)
- unpaved:
- 10,132 km (includes 4,960 km of rural roads) (2016)
Honduras
- total:
- 14,742 km (2012)
- paved:
- 3,367 km (2012)
- unpaved:
- 11,375 km (1,543 km summer only) (2012)
note: an additional 8,951 km of non-official roads used by the coffee industry
Jamaica
- total:
- 22,121 km (includes 44 km of expressways) (2011)
- paved:
- 16,148 km (2011)
- unpaved:
- 5,973 km (2011)
Montserrat
note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the 227 km road system; a new road infrastructure has been built on the north end of the island
Europe
47 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 154,012 km (2010)
- paved:
- 120,514 km (includes 1,756 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 33,498 km (2010)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 22,926 km (2010)
- paved:
- 19,426 km (4,652 km of interurban roads) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 3,500 km (2010)
Bulgaria
- total:
- 19,512 km (2011)
- paved:
- 19,235 km (includes 458 km of expressways) (2011)
- unpaved:
- 277 km (2011)
note: does not include Category IV local roads
Czechia
- total:
- 130,661 km (includes urban roads) (2011)
- paved:
- 130,661 km (includes 730 km of expressways) (2011)
Estonia
- total:
- 58,412 km (includes urban roads) (2011)
- paved:
- 10,427 km (includes 115 km of expressways) (2011)
- unpaved:
- 47,985 km (2011)
Faroe Islands
- total:
- 960 km (2017)
note: those islands not commected by roads (bridges or tunnels) are connected by seven different ferry links operated by the nationally owned company SSL
Finland
- total:
- 454,000 km (2012)
- highways:
- 78,000 km (50,000 paved, including 700 km of expressways; 28,000 unpaved) (2012)
- private and forest roads:
- 350,000 km (2012)
- urban:
- 26,000 km (2012)
France
- total:
- 1,028,446 km (metropolitan France) (2010)
- paved:
- 1,028,446 km (includes 11,416 km of expressways) (2010)
note: not included are 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments
Germany
- total:
- 645,000 km (2010)
- paved:
- 645,000 km (includes 12,800 km of expressways) (2010)
note: includes local roads
Greece
- total:
- 116,960 km (2010)
- paved:
- 41,357 km (includes 1,091 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 75,603 km (2010)
Hungary
- total:
- 203,601 km (2014)
- paved:
- 77,087 km (includes 1,582 km of expressways) (2014)
- unpaved:
- 126,514 km (2014)
Kosovo
- total:
- 2,012 km (2015)
- paved:
- 1,921 km (includes 78 km of expressways) (2015)
- unpaved:
- 91 km (2015)
Lithuania
- total:
- 84,166 km (2012)
- paved:
- 72,297 km (includes 312 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 11,869 km (2012)
Macedonia now North Macedonia
- total:
- 14,182 km (includes 290 km of expressways) (2017)
- paved:
- 9,633 km (2017)
- unpaved:
- 4,549 km (2017)
Norway
- total:
- 93,870 km (includes 393 km of expressways) (2013)
- paved:
- 75,754 km (2013)
- unpaved:
- 18,116 km (2013)
Poland
- total:
- 420,000 km (2016)
- paved:
- 291,000 km (includes 1,492 km of expressways, 1,559 of motorways) (2016)
- unpaved:
- 129,000 km (2016)
Portugal
- total:
- 82,900 km (2008)
- paved:
- 71,294 km (includes 2,613 km of expressways) (2008)
- unpaved:
- 11,606 km (2008)
Romania
- total:
- 84,185 km (2012)
- paved:
- 49,873 km (includes 337 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 34,312 km (2012)
Serbia
- total:
- 44,248 km (2016)
- paved:
- 28,000 km (16,162 km state roads, out of which 741 km highways) (2016)
- unpaved:
- 16,248 km (2016)
Sweden
- total:
- 573,134 km (includes 2,050 km of expressways) (2016)
- paved:
- 140,100 km (2016)
- unpaved:
- 433,034 km (2016)
note: includes 98,500 km of state roads, 433,034 km of private roads, and 41,600 km of municipal roads
Ukraine
- total:
- 169,694 km (2012)
- paved:
- 166,095 km (includes 17 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 3,599 km (2012)
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
- total:
- 20,006 km (2011)
- government control:
- 13,006 km (includes 2,277 km of expressways) (2011)
- paved:
- 8,564 km (2011)
- unpaved:
- 4,442 km (2011)
- Turkish Cypriot control:
- 7,000 km (2011)
Iran
- total:
- 198,866 km (2010)
- paved:
- 160,366 km (includes 1,948 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 38,500 km (2010)
Oman
- total:
- 60,230 km (2012)
- paved:
- 29,685 km (includes 1,943 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 30,545 km (2012)
Saudi Arabia
- total:
- 221,372 km (2006)
- paved:
- 47,529 km (includes 3,891 km of expressways) (2006)
- unpaved:
- 173,843 km (2006)
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 385,754 km (2012)
- paved:
- 352,268 km (includes 2,127 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 33,486 km (2012)
North America
5 entriesCanada
- total:
- 1,042,300 km (2011)
- paved:
- 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways) (2011)
- unpaved:
- 626,700 km (2011)
Mexico
- total:
- 377,660 km (2012)
- paved:
- 137,544 km (includes 7,176 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 240,116 km (2012)
United States
- total:
- 6,586,610 km (2012)
- paved:
- 4,304,715 km (includes 76,334 km of expressways) (2012)
- unpaved:
- 2,281,895 km (2012)
Oceania
21 entriesMicronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- total:
- 388 km (2015)
- paved:
- 184 km (2015)
- unpaved:
- 204 km (2015)
New Zealand
- total:
- 94,000 km (2017)
- paved:
- 61,600 km (includes 199 km of expressways) (2017)
- unpaved:
- 32,400 km (2017)
Solomon Islands
- total:
- 1,390 km (2011)
- paved:
- 34 km (2011)
- unpaved:
- 1,356 km (2011)
note: includes 920 km of private plantation roads
South America
13 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 231,374 km (2004)
- paved:
- 69,412 km (includes 734 km of expressways) (2004)
- unpaved:
- 161,962 km (2004)
Brazil
- total:
- 1,580,964 km (2010)
- paved:
- 212,798 km (2010)
- unpaved:
- 1,368,166 km (2010)
note: does not include urban roads
Chile
- total:
- 77,764 km (2010)
- paved:
- 18,119 km (includes 2,387 km of expressways) (2010)
- unpaved:
- 59,645 km (2010)
Peru
- total:
- 140,672 km (18,699 km paved) (2012)
note: includes 24,593 km of national roads (14,748 km paved), 24,235 km of departmental roads (2,340 km paved), and 91,844 km of local roads (1,611 km paved)
Southeast Asia
16 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2018, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2018.