Tanzania: Rail lines (total route-km)

Key figures

Since 1995 it is down 39.44% from 4,460 in 1995 (2.25% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 12 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

Closest to Tanzania in the 2017 ranking

• Thailand — 1st of 3: 4,092
• Estonia — 3rd of 3: 1,033

What this measures

The total length of rail line in the country operated for passenger transport, goods transport, or both.

Limitations: Data for transport sectors are not always internationally comparable. Unlike for demographic statistics, national income accounts, and international trade data, the collection of infrastructure data has not been "internationalized". The data from UIC is based on voluntary reporting by railway companies, and can show drastic increases or decreases for some of the years due to lack of reporting by some of the companies in that country.

All 11 values

Rail lines (total route-km) in nearby economies

• Botswana — 886 (2021)
• Burkina Faso — 518 (2021)
• Cameroon — 884 (2021)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 3,641 (2021)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 639 (2021)
• Gabon — 648 (2021)
• Madagascar — 673 (2021)
• Mauritania — 728 (2021)
• Nigeria — 3,528 (2015)
• Sudan — 2,747 (2020)

More infrastructure data for Tanzania

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 78,299 (2024)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 0.11 (2024)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 81,604 (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 20.04 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 1.91 million (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 86.77 million (2024)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 126.56 (2024)
• Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 15.57% (2024)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$68.71 million (2024)
• ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP)

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Questions people ask

What is Tanzania's rail lines (total route-km)?

2,701 in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1995?

It is down 39.44% from 4,460 in 1995 (2.25% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 4,582 in 1999 and the lowest 2,600 in 2004.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Railisa Database, International Union of Railways (UIC), uri: https://uic-stats.uic.org/.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator IS.RRS.TOTL.KM, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Railisa Database, International Union of Railways (UIC), uri: https://uic-stats.uic.org/ Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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