Transport and infrastructure in the Republic of the CongoOur listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of the Republic of the Congo with the average of all countries in Africa. The traffic routes have noticeable defects in many places and are often not in a particularly good condition.
In terms of the length of its rail network, Congo ranks 82nd in the world with 0.09 meters per inhabitant. In total, the rail network is 510 kilometers long. Passenger traffic reached 266.47 million passenger-kilometers in 2012.
The waterways listed refer to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of ports includes those located on the total 169 km of coastline. In 2020, about 556,579 freight containers were transported.
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Road trafficThe network of roads and highways has a total length of 23,324 km. For each of the country's 5.52 million inhabitants, this corresponds to 4.23 meters. This puts Congo in 121st place in the global ranking. However, it is also important to note the country's population density, which is very low at around 16 inhabitants per km². Like this, disproportionately long distances generally have to be covered to reach the more remote parts of the country.
With an average of 1401 traffic fatalities per year (2012 - 2019), road traffic in the Republic of the Congo is considered quite dangerous. This corresponds to around 4.3 accident fatalities per 28.1 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 5.9 in the European Union as a whole and 17.1 worldwide.
In the Congo, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.
|total||per 1 mio|
|Roadways||23,300 km||4,226.82 km||68.20 m|
|Railroads||500 km||92.42 km||1.49 m|
|Waterways||1,120 km||202.97 km||3.27 m|
|total||per 1 mio|
|Roadways||3,002,100 km||2,239.70 km||99.00 m|
|Railroads||88,600 km||66.09 km||2.92 m|
|Waterways||50,100 km||37.35 km||1.65 m|
Data sources used• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)