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COMCEC Transport and Communications

Outlook 2016

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Figure 10 shows the length of the rail network relative to the country’s population. As in the case

of road network, rail network per capita can be considered as a proxy for measuring the extent

of service by railways to any person in a country. All OIC countries (except Djibouti, Kazakhstan,

Turkmenistan, Gabon, Tunisia, and Azerbaijan) have fewer than 200 km of rail lines per million

population. At the individual country level, Djibouti and Kazakhstan registered the highest level

of rail network per capita, i.e. 880 and 817 km per million population, respectively. Average rail

network per capita of the OIC countries is equal to 92 km per million population while the world

average is 164 km. This suggests that the length of the rail network is inadequate to serve the

OIC population, evenwithout taking into consideration that almost half of the OIC countries have

no railway network.