List of countries by rail usage
This is a list of countries by rail usage. Rail usage may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for freight and passenger transport respectively. This is the number of tonnes or passengers multiplied by the average distance of their journeys in kilometres.
Overview
Almost 10,000 billion freight tonne-kilometres are travelled around the world. Roughly one quarter of these are travelled in the United States, another quarter in China, and a third in Russia. Of the 3,000bn passenger-kilometres travelled across the world, 1,346bn of these are travelled solely in China. The average Swiss person travels 2,430 km by train each year, almost 500 more than the average Japanese person (the Japanese having the second-highest average kilometres travelled per passenger in the world).
In 2014 there were around 1 million kilometres of railway in the world (a decrease of 3% compared to 2013). Of this, 350,000 km were in Europe and mainly used for passenger service, 370,000 km were in North America and mainly used for freight, and 230,000 km were in Asia and used for both freight and passenger service.[1] In America and Europe, there are many low cost airlines and motorways which compete with rail for passenger traffic, while Asia has seen a large growth in high-speed rail with 257bn pkm representing 72% of total world high-speed rail passenger traffic.[1]
Passenger rail
These figures do not include metro railway systems; see Lists of rapid transit systems for metro rail statistics.
Passenger-kilometres of rail transport per year
Countries with more than five billion passenger-kilometres (tkm) travelled per year. Unless otherwise specified, data come from the Railway Statistics 2015 Report by the International Union of Railways (UIC).
Rank | Country/Region | Billion passenger-kilometres | Data year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1,346[2] | 2017 | |
2 | 1,147 | 2015 | |
3 | 427[3] | 2015 | |
4 | 120.4 | 2014 | |
5 | 83.2 | 2015 | |
6 | 79.3 | 2015 | |
7 | 66.0[4] | 2016 | |
8 | 40.4 | 2015 | |
9 | 37.1 | 2015 | |
10 | 25.9 | 2015 | |
11 | 23.1 | 2015 | |
12 | 20.3 | 2015 | |
13 | 19.8 | 2015 | |
14 | 18.8 | 2015 | |
15 | 18.5 | 2015 | |
16 | 17.8 | 2015 | |
17 | 17.6 [5] | 2015 | |
18 | 16.3 | 2014 | |
19 | 16.6 | 2011 | |
20 | 11.6 | 2015 | |
21 | 10.3 | 2015 | |
22 | 10.3[note 1] | 2010 | |
23 | 7.2 | 2015 | |
24 | 7.5 | 2011 | |
25 | 7.3 | 2010 | |
26 | 7.2 | 2015 | |
27 | 6.3 | 2015 | |
28 | 4.8 | 2015 | |
29 | 6.0 | 2015 | |
30 | 5.7 | 2015 | |
31 | 5.3 | 2014 | |
World | 2,954 | 2014 | |
583.7 | 2015 |
Passengers carried in rail transport per year
Countries with more than 20 million passengers per year. Unless otherwise specified, data come from the Railway Statistics 2015 Report by the International Union of Railways.
Rank | Country | Million passengers | Data year | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 9,090 | 2015 | ||
2 | 8,224 | 2015 | ||
3 | 2,007 | 2015 | ||
4 | 1,731 | 2016[6] | The London Underground ("The Tube") had an additional 1.34 billion passengers in 2015-16[7] | |
5 | 1,544 | 2015 | Beijing Metro alone had 3.41 billion passengers in 2014.[8] | |
6 | 1,123 | 2015 | ||
7 | 1,020 | 2015 | Moscow Metro alone had 2.45 billion passengers in 2014[9] | |
8 | 622 | 2015 | ||
9 | 571 | 2015 | ||
10 | 488 | 2015 | ||
11 | 399 | 2014 | ||
12 | 320 | 2015 | ||
13 | 280 | 2015 | Passengers carried by all rail passenger transport companies in Poland.[5] | |
14 | 277 | 2015 | ||
15 | 248 | 2015 | ||
16 | 232 | 2015 | ||
17 | 198 | 2008 | ||
18 | 192 | 2015 | ||
19 | 179 | 2016 | [10] | |
20 | 134 | 2015 | ||
21 | 132 | 2015 | ||
22 | 112 | 2015 | ||
23 | 92 | 2014 | ||
24 | 78 | 2014 | ||
25 | 64.6[11] | 2017 | Heavy rail only. The Jerusalem Light Rail had an additional 42.5 million passengers in 2017.[12] | |
26 | 61 | 2015 | ||
27 | 50 | 2017[13] | ||
28 | 40 | 2011 | ||
29 | 31 | 2015 | Amtrak had 30.8 million passengers in the year 2014-15.[14] Among regional systems that report to the American Public Transportation Association, there were 3.945 billion metro/subway riders, 529.6 million commuter rail riders, and 489.8 million light rail/streetcar riders in 2015.[15] | |
30 | 22 | 2015 | ||
31 | 20 | 2015 |
Passenger modal share for rail
The modal share of railway transport (excluding tram & metro) as compared to other modes of transport.
Rank | Country | Modal share (%) | year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 30.5 | 2009[16] | |
2 | 17.2 | 2012[17] | |
3 | 11.5 | 2012[17] | |
4 | 10.1 | 2012[17] | |
5 | 10.1 | 2012[17] | |
6 | 9.6 | 2014[18] | |
7 | 9.5 | 2012[17] | |
8 | 9.1 | 2012[17] | |
9 | 9.0 | 2012[17] | |
10 | 8.8 | 2012[17] | |
11 | 8.4 | 2012[17] | |
12 | 8.0 | 2010[19] | |
13 | 7.1 | 2012[17] | |
14 | 7.1 | 2012[17] | |
15 | 6.3 | 2005[20] | |
16 | 6.1 | 2012[17] | |
17 | 5.6 | 2012[17] | |
18 | 5.3 | 2012[17] | |
19 | 5.0 | 2014[21] | |
20 | 4.9 | 2012[17] | |
21 | 4.8 | 2012[17] | |
22 | 4.8 | 2012[17] | |
23 | 4.7 | 2012[17] | |
24 | 4.6 | 2012[17] | |
25 | 4.1 | 2012[17] | |
26 | 3.5 | 2012[17] | |
27 | 2.8 | 2012[17] | |
28 | 2.3 | 2012[17] | |
29 | 1.8 | 2012[17] | |
30 | 1.7 | 2012[17] | |
31 | 1.5 | 2012[17] | |
32 | 0.8 | 2012[17] | |
33 | 0.7 | 2012[17] | |
34 | 0.3 | 2004[22] |
Passenger rail by passenger-kilometres per capita
Countries with more than five billion passenger-kilometres travelled per year.
Country | Kilometers/year | Year |
---|---|---|
2430.9 | 2013[23][24] | |
1,995 | ||
1,329 | ||
1,298[25] | 2014 | |
1,245 | ||
1,220 | ||
1,150 | ||
1,030 | ||
1,009 | ||
981[26] | 2015 | |
959[27] | 2014 | |
940 | ||
880 | ||
780 | ||
777 | ||
690 | ||
660 | ||
653 | ||
650 | ||
620 | ||
550 | ||
460 | ||
450 | ||
410 | ||
380 | ||
180 | ||
170 | ||
160 | ||
150 | ||
110 | ||
80 | ||
80 |
Freight rail
Tonne-kilometres of rail transport per year
Countries with more than one billion tonne-kilometres (tkm) travelled per year. Unless otherwise specified, data come from the Railway Statistics 2014 Report by the International Union of Railways.
Rank | Country | Billion tkm | Data year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 2,696[28] | 2017 | |
2 | 2,326[29] | 2016 | |
3 | 2,306[30] | 2015 | |
4 | 666 | 2014 | |
5 | 352 | 2011 | |
6 | 267 | 2014 | |
— | 261 | 2014 | |
7 | 237 | 2011 | |
8 | 236 | 2012 | |
9 | 198[31] | 2008 | |
10 | 135 | 2014 | |
11 | 81[32] | 2014 | |
12 | 75 | 2014 | |
13 | 45 | 2014 | |
14 | 32 | 2014 | |
15 | 32 | 2014 | |
16 | 24.4[33] | 2014 | |
17 | 22 | 2012 | |
18 | 22 | 2013 | |
19 | 21.1[34] | 2014 | |
20 | 21[32] | 2014 | |
21 | 16 | 2014 | |
22 | 15 | 2014 | |
23 | 14 | 2014 | |
24 | 12 | 2010 | |
25 | 12 | 2012 | |
26 | 12 | 2009 | |
27 | 11 | 2014 | |
28 | 10 | 2013 | |
29 | 10 | 2014 | |
30 | 10 | 2014 | |
31 | 9.6[1] | 2014 | |
32 | 9 | 2014 | |
33 | 8 | 2014 | |
34 | 8 | 2014 | |
35 | 8 | 2010 | |
36 | 7 | 2010 | |
37 | 6[35] | 2013 | |
38 | 6 | 2011 | |
39 | 5 | 2014 | |
40 | 5 | 2012 | |
41 | 4[35] | 2013 | |
42 | 4 | 2009 | |
43 | 4 | 2012 | |
44 | 3 | 2011 | |
45 | 3 | 2014 | |
46 | 3 | 2011 | |
47 | 2 | 2014 | |
48 | 2 | 2014 | |
49 | 2[35] | 2013 | |
50 | 2 | 2010 | |
51 | 2 | 2010 | |
52 | 1.7 | 2014[36] | |
53 | 1.4 | 2016[37] | |
54 | 1 | 2012 | |
55 | 1 | 2011 |
Tonnes carried in rail transport per year
Countries with more than ten million tonnes carried per year. Unless otherwise specified, data come from the Railway Statistics 2014 Report by the International Union of Railways.
Rank | Country | Million tonnes | Data year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 3,358[38] | 2015 | |
2 | 1,710 | 2011 | |
3 | 1,298[39] | 2014 | |
4 | 1,218[40] | 2015 | |
5 | 1,050[41] | 2014 | |
6 | 460 | 2014 | |
7 | 457 | 2011 | |
8 | 310 | 2011 | |
9 | 295 | 2012 | |
10 | 225 [42] | 2015 | |
11 | 221 | 2014 | |
12 | 197 | 2011 | |
13 | 141 | 2014 | |
14 | 110.1[43] | 2014 | |
15 | 105 | 2010 | |
16 | 82 | 2014 | |
17 | 74 | 2014 | |
18 | 65 [44] | 2015 | |
19 | 63 | 2011 | |
20 | 59 | 2014 | |
21 | 57 | 2014 | |
22 | 57 | 2014 | |
23 | 50[1] | 2014 | |
24 | 49 | 2014 | |
25 | 44 | 2014 | |
26 | 40 | 2013 | |
27 | 38 | 2014 | |
28 | 37 | 2014 | |
29 | 37 | 2009 | |
30 | 36 | 2014 | |
31 | 37 | 2011 | |
32 | 33 | 2013 | |
33 | 31 | 2010 | |
34 | 27 | 2012 | |
35 | 26 | 2014 | |
36 | 26 | 2012 | |
37 | 25 | 2014 | |
38 | 25 | 2013 | |
39 | 24 | 2010 | |
40 | 23 | 2012 | |
41 | 20 | 2012 | |
42 | 20 | 2010 | |
43 | 18 | 2011 | |
44 | 17 | 2014 | |
45 | 13 | 2014 | |
46 | 12 | 2011 | |
47 | 12 | 2014 | |
48 | 11 | 2012 | |
49 | 11 | 2011 | |
50 | 10 | 2014 | |
51 | 10 | 2012 |
Freight modal share for rail
The modal share carried by rail of all freight in a given country.
Rank | Country | Modal share (%) | Data year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 68[45] | 2009 | |
2 | 61[46] | 2012 | |
3 | 59[45] | 2010 | |
4 | 47[46] | 2012 | |
5 | 46[23] | 2012 | |
6 | 44[45] | 2008 | |
7 | 41[46] | 2012 | |
8 | 40[46] | 2012 | |
9 | 40[47] | 2009 | |
10 | 38[46] | 2012 | |
11 | 31[45] | 2009 | |
12 | 31[48] | 2016 | |
13 | 27[46] | 2012 | |
14 | 25[49] | 2005 | |
15 | 24[46] | 2012 | |
16 | 23[46] | 2012 | |
17 | 22[46] | 2012 | |
18 | 21[46] | 2012 | |
19 | 20[46] | 2012 | |
20 | 18[46] | 2012 | |
21 | 18[46] | 2012 | |
22 | 15[46] | 2012 | |
23 | 14[46] | 2012 | |
24 | 12[46] | 2012 | |
25 | 9[46] | 2012 | |
26 | 6.2[45] | 2010 | |
27 | 5[46] | - | |
28 | 0.7[50] | 2007 | |
Freight rail by tonne-kilometres per capita
Rank | Country | Tonne-kilometre per capita | Data year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 12,599 | ||
2 | 10,517 | ||
3 | 9,165 | ||
4 | 2,308 | ||
5 | 2,150 | ||
6 | 1,480[23][24] | 2013 | |
7 | 1,060 | ||
782 |
Brief railway statistics by country
Country | area (million km2) | pop (million) | Rail company | Net km | Double km | Electrified km | HSR km | passenger-km | tonne-km | HS. PKm | Pass. modal % | Frt. modal % | Pass/ pop % | Elec % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.08 | 8.57 | OBB | ||||||||||||
8.54 | 209 | 29 | 0.5 | 232 | ||||||||||
9.6 | 1,382 | CR | 127 | 71 | 86 | 25 | 876 | 2764 | 68 | |||||
1 | 93 | ENR | 5 | 1.5 | 0.07 | 41 | 4 | 6.1 | ||||||
0.55 | 64 | SNCF | 29 | 16 | 14 | 1.8 | 81 | 40 | 48 | 16.8 | ||||
0.36 | 80.68 | DB | 34 | 18 | 20 | 1.2 | 74 | 91 | 22 | 10 | 17 | 22.4 | 60 | |
3.28 | 1,326 | IR | 63 | 17.4 | 17.8 | 696 | 481 | 5.5 | ||||||
1.6 | 80.04 | RAI | 7 | 1 | 0.15 | 0.25 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0.3 | 1 | |
0.3 | 59 | FS | 16 | 7 | 12 | 0.82 | 45 | 21 | 9 | |||||
0.38 | 126 | JR | 20 | 8 | 12 | 2.5 | 253 | 23 | 79 | 29 | 69.6 | 100 | ||
2.72 | 17 | KTZ | 14 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 191 | |||||||
0.44 | 34 | ONCFM | 2 | 0.6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0.8 | 89 | |||||
0.04 | 17 | NS | 3.2 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 17.8 | 6 | 8.8 | 5 | 76.4 | |||
.796 | 192 | PR | 7 | 0.3 | 26 | 6 | ||||||||
0.31 | 38 | PKP | 19 | 9 | 12 | |||||||||
17.09 | 143 | RZD | 128 | 36 | 48 | 1.3 | 173 | 2090 | 14 | 42 | 67 | 9.1 | 80 | |
1.22 | 54 | SAR | 24 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 109 | 11 | ||||||
0.1 | 50 | KNR | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.32 | 32 | 11 | 10 | 20.4 | 20 | |||
0.51 | 46 | Renfe | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1.27 | 21 | 11 | 4 | |||||
0.041 | 8.38 | SBB | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 40.9 | 100 | |||||
0.036 | 23 | TRA | 1 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.33 | 9 | 1 | ||||||
0.78 | 79 | TCDD | 9 | 04 | 1.9 | 0.25 | 6 | 10 | 24 | |||||
0.24 | 65 | NR | 16 | 5 | 0.3 | 48 | 21 | |||||||
9.6 | 324 | AMTK | 227 | 2820 | 42 | 1 | ||||||||
World | 149 | 7,432 | United Nations | 900 | 250 | 240 | 9 | 2468 | 9486 | 178 | 10 | 20 | 50 |
See also
Notes
References
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