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.