Ethiopia vs. South Sudan

Transportation

	Ethiopia	South Sudan
Railways	total: 659 km (Ethiopian segment of the 756 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad) (2017) standard gauge: 659 km 1.435-m gauge (2017) note: electric railway with redundant power supplies; under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia and managed by a Chinese contractor	total: 248 km (2018) note: a narrow gauge, single-track railroad between Babonosa (Sudan) and Wau, the only existing rail system, was repaired in 2010 with $250 million in UN funds, but is not currently operational
Roadways	total: 120,171 km (2018)	total: 90,200 km (2019) paved: 300 km (2019) unpaved: 89,900 km (2019) note: most of the road network is unpaved and much of it is in disrepair
Airports	total: 57 (2013)	total: 89 (2020)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 17 (2017) over 3,047 m: 3 (2017) 2,438 to 3,047 m: 8 (2017) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2017) under 914 m: 2 (2017)	total: 4 (2020) over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 40 (2013) 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2013) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 9 (2013) 914 to 1,523 m: 20 (2013) under 914 m: 8 (2013)	total: 84 (2020) 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 38 under 914 m: 33
National air transport system	number of registered air carriers: 1 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 75 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 11,501,244 (2018) annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2,089,280,000 mt-km (2018)	number of registered air carriers: 2 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 2 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 0 mt-km
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix	ET	Z8

Source: CIA Factbook