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This article gives rail usage statistics by country according to the International Union of Railways

International Union of Railways

The UIC , or International Union of Railways, is an international rail transport industry body.- Brief history :The railways of Europe originated as separate concerns. There were many border changes after World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. Colonial railways were the responsibility of the...

and other sources.

Passenger rail

All figures include passenger rail only, thus including suburban railways, but excluding metros.

Passenger-km of rail transport per year

Countries with more than 5 billion passenger-km

Country	Billion passenger-km	Year
India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	925	2010
Mainland China	876.22	2010
European Union European Union The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...	386.24	2009
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	244.24	2009
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	153.58	2009
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	87.67	2009
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	78.58	2010
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	53.72	2010
Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	50.24	2010
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	45.59	2009
Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...	40.84	2008
South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	33.03	2010
Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...	25.54	2004
Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...	24.73	2008
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	22.30	2010
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	17.42	2009
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	17.21	2008
Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...	16.81	2009
Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	15.72	2010
Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	15.40	2010
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	14.86	2009
South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	13.87	2007
Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	10.49	2009
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	10.31	2010
Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...	9.00	2010
Thailand Thailand Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...	8.04	2007
Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...	7.41	2010
Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...	7.40	2009
Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...	6.98	2003
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	6.77	2010
Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....	6.55	2010
Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...	5.98	2009
Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...	5.61	2008
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	5.49	2010
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...	5.40	2010
*World*	2,671	2009

Source: UIC database

Passengers carried in rail transport per year

Countries with more than 500 million passengers

Country	Billion passengers	Year
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	22	2010
India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	8.03	2010
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	1.95	2010
People's Republic of China People's Republic of China China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...	1.68	2010
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	1.33	2010
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	1.14	2009
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	1.14	2009
South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	1.06	2010
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	0.64	2009
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	0.57	2010
South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	0.53	2007

Source: UIC database

Modal ratio

Modal ratio of railway transport (excluding metro

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

) compared to other modes of transport.

Country	modal ratio [%]	year
	6.9	2006
	5.4	2006
	6.9	2006
	9.0	2006
	7.7	2006
	1.7	2006
	5.1	2006
	1.6	2006
	5.3	2006
	9.2	2006
	5.5	2006
	5.1	2006
	1.0	2006
	3.9	2006
	12.6	2006
	8.3	2006
	9.8	2006
	6.7	2006
	4.4	2006
	9.3	2006
	3.2	2006
	5.9	2006
	4.9	2006
	8.2	2006
	5.9	2006
	4.4	2006
	1.7	2006
	2.5	2006
	4.5	2006
	16.4	2006
	0.3	2004
	27	2000
	6.3	2005

Passenger km per head of population

Only countries with five billion or more passenger km are included.

Country	Kilometers/year
Switzerland	2,422
Japan	1,995
Early Modern France	1,370
Denmark	1,329
Austria	1,245
Russia	1,220
Ukraine	1,150
Belarus	1,030
Belgium	1,009
Netherlands	940
Germany	910
Kazakhstan	880
Italy	780
India	777
United Kingdom	770
Hungary	690
Czech Republic	660
People's Republic of China	653
South Korea	650
Sweden	620
Egypt	550
Spain	460
Poland	450
Republic of China	410
Kingdom of Romania	380
Iran	180
Argentina	170
Pakistan	160
Thailand	150
Indonesia	110
Turkey	80
United States	80

Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers

Countries with more than 10 billion tonne-km, only revenue-earning traffic is included (not gross traffic).

Country	Billion tonne-kilometers	Year
Mainland China	2,764	2010
United States	2,469	2010
Russia	1,865	2009
India	551	2009
Canada	323	2010
European Union	277	2009
Brazil	268	2008
Ukraine	218	2010
Kazakhstan	197	2009
South Africa	113	2008
Germany	106	2010
Mexico	69.2	2009
Australia	64.2	2010
Belarus	42.7	2009
Poland	34.3	2010
Early Modern France	22.8	2010
Uzbekistan	22.2	2009
United Kingdom	21.2	2007
Austria	21.1	2009
Japan	20.4	2009
Iran	20.2	2010
Latvia	17.2	2010
Czech Republic	13.6	2010
Lithuania	13.4	2010
Italy	12.0	2010
Argentina	12.0	2008
Colombia	11.9	2008
Turkmenistan	11.8	2009
Sweden	11.5	2006
Turkey	11.0	2010

Source: UIC database

Freight rail by million-ton

Countries with more than 100 million tonnes

Country	Million-ton	Year
People's Republic of China	3,643	2010
United States	1,820	2007
Russia	1,109	2009
India	833	2009
Brazil	460	2008
Ukraine	433	2010
Germany	415	2010
Canada	289	2010
Australia	261	2010
Kazakhstan	248	2009
South Africa	176	2007
Belarus	134	2009
Poland	128	2010
Austria	110	2009
United Kingdom	104	2007

Source: UIC database

Freight Modal share (in all kinds of transport)

Country	modal share [%]	year
	65	2006
Latvia	61	2008
	58	2006
Switzerland	54	2008
Estonia	45	2008
United States	42	2006
Lithuania	42	2008
Austria	37	2008
Sweden	35	2008
Finland	27	2008
Poland	24	2008
Czech Republic	23	2008
Slovakia	23	2008
Germany	22	2008
Kingdom of Bulgaria	21	2008
Hungary	21	2008
Japan	20	2000
Kingdom of Romania	19	2008
European Union	18	2008

Freight rail by tonne-kilometer per capita

Country	Tonne-kilometer per capita
Russia	12,599
Canada	10,517
United States	9,165
Australia	2,308
People's Republic of China	2,059
Switzerland	1,670
Germany	1,060
European Union	782

Brief railway statistics by country

An important stage to use the brief traffic data according to UIC

International Union of Railways

in 2007 and (List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita).

Rank	Country	area	pop	Av GDP	Rail co	Net km	Dbl km	El km	HSR km	Loco. No.	pkm	tkm	HS. PKm	train weight	Pass. %	Frt. %	Pass/ pop %	P. fare	F. tariff	Elec %	income %
1	Russia	17.09	143	16	RZD	128	36	48	1.3	20101	173	2090	14	2528	42	67	9.1	4	2	80	107
2	Germany	0.36	82	35	DB Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...	34	18	20	1.2		74	91	22	410	10	17	22.4	11	3	60	109
3	Early Modern France	0.55	62	34	SNCF SNCF The SNCF , is France's national state-owned railway company. SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network...	29	16	14	1.8		81	40	48	496			16.8	12	4		105
4	Japan	0.38	127	34	JR	20	8	12	2.5		253	23	79	368	29		69.6			100	124
5	South Korea	0.1	48	28	KNR Korail Korea Railroad Corporation , promoted as Korail , is the national railroad operator in South Korea.Korail operates passenger and freight trains throughout South Korea...	3	1	2	0.32		32	11	10	472			20.4			20	106
6		0.24	61	37	NR National Rail National Rail is a title used by the Association of Train Operating Companies as a generic term to define the passenger rail services operated in Great Britain...	16		5	0.3		48	21
7	Republic of China	0.036	23	31	TRA Taiwan Railway Administration The Taiwan Railway Administration is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China responsible for managing, maintaining, and running passenger and freight service on 1097 km of conventional railroad lines in Taiwan...	1	0.67	0.69	0.33		9	1									77
8	Spain	0.51	45	31	Renfe RENFE Renfe Operadora is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the 1668-mm "Iberian gauge" and 1435-mm "European gauge" networks of the Spanish national railway infrastructure company ADIF .- History :The name RENFE is derived from that of the former Spanish National...	15	5	9	1.27		21	11	4								105
9	Italy	0.3	59	31	FS Ferrovie dello Stato Ferrovie dello Stato is a government-owned holding which manage infrastructure and service on the Italian rail network. The subsidiary Trenitalia is the main rail operator in Italy.-Organization:Ferrovie dello Stato subsidiaries are:...	16	7	12	0.82		45	21	9								96
10	Turkey	0.78	74	13	TCDD Turkish State Railways The State Railways of the Turkish Republic or TCDD is the government owned, national railway carrier in the Republic of Turkey, headquartered in Ankara...	9	04	1.9	0.25		6	10		572						24	69
11	Switzerland	0.04	8	43	SBB SBB-CFF-FFS Swiss Federal Railways and SFR are not in official use) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern. Formerly a government institution, it is since 1999 a special stock corporation with all shares held by the Swiss Confederation or the Swiss cantons...	4	2	3			15	13		442			40.9				103
12	Iran	1.6	71	11	RAI Islamic Republic of Iran Railways The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways is the national state-owned railway system of Iran. is an associate of the IR and manages its passenger trains including international trains between Tehran and Istanbul and Tehran and Damascus...	7	1	0.15	0.25	400	13	21	0	1088	4	7	0.3	0.4	2	1	62
13	United States	9.6	302	47	AMTK Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...	227						2820		5254		42		34	2	1	128
14	Egypt	1	73	6	ENR Egyptian National Railways Egyptian National Railways is the national railway of Egypt and managed by the parastatal Egyptian Railway Authority .-1833–77:...	5	1.5	0.07			41	4					6.1				80
15	India	3.28	1132	3	IR Indian Railways Indian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....	63	17.4	17.8			696	481		1614			5.5	2	8
16	Mainland China	9.6	1342	6	CR	91	33	36	5		876	2764
1	World	149	6400	10	UN	900	250	240	9		2468	9486	178	1677	10	20				50
18	Poland	0.31	38	17	PKP Polish State Railways is the dominant railway operator in Poland.The company was founded when the former state-owned operator was divided into several units based on the requirements laid down by the European Union...	19	9	12
19	South Africa	1.22	48	10	SAR	24	2	8		3421	14	109		2700			11
20	Kazakhstan	2.72	16	11	KTZ	14	5	4		1727	14	191
21	Brazil	8.54	189	10		29		0.5		2394		232
22	Pakistan	.796	169	3	PR Pakistan Railways This article is about the rail company in Pakistan. For technical details and operations see: Transport in Pakistan.Pakistan Railways is a national state-owned rail transport service of Pakistan, head-quartered in Lahore. It is administered by the federal government under the Ministry of Railways....	7		0.3		544	26	6
23	Austria	0.08		40	OBB
24	Morocco	0.44	32	4	ONCFM	2	0.6	1			4	6		915			0.8			89
25					UN

Source

Statistical synopsis at the International Union of Railways
International Union of Railways
The UIC , or International Union of Railways, is an international rail transport industry body.- Brief history :The railways of Europe originated as separate concerns. There were many border changes after World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. Colonial railways were the responsibility of the...

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