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COMCEC Transport and Communications

Outlook 2019

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Figure 7 gives the length of the road network in km per USD 10 million GDP. Figure 7 shows that

the size of the road network relative to the country’s GDP is, compared to the US and the EU,

higher in all OIC countries except for Bahrain, Egypt, Gabon, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,

Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia,

and Turkey. For the OIC as a whole, the length of the road network per USD 10 million GDP is

about 27. For the US and the EU this number is 3.9 and 6.4, respectively. This is an important

observation insofar that it suggests that many of the OIC countries have road networks that are

too large for the size of their economy. Obviously, this has clear implications for the maintenance

of the road networks as well, i.e. the resources to properly maintain the road networks in these

countries is going to be limited.