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Figure 11 reveals that OIC-Sub-Saharan Africa has very low share compared to the OIC-MENA
and OIC-Asia regions in terms of rail passengers carried in 2017. Egypt and Iran from the OIC-
MENA region and Pakistan, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan from the OIC-Asia are the leading
member states with regard to rail passengers.
Figure 11: Rail passengers carried by OIC regions (million passenger-km) (2017)
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators
As Figure 12 shows, rail freight carried in the OIC-Asia region, which predominantly belongs to
Kazakhstan, is far above other regions in 2017. In the OIC-MENA region, Iran and Turkey
together carried more than two-thirds of region’s rail freight.
Figure 12: Rail freight carried by OIC regions (million ton-km) (2017)
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators
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