Laos vs. Thailand
Transportation
| Laos | Thailand |
|---|
| Roadways | total: 39,586 km (2009)
paved: 5,415 km (2009)
unpaved: 34,171 km (2009) | total: 180,053 km (includes 450 km of expressways) (2006) |
| Waterways | 4,600 km (primarily on the Mekong River and its tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m) (2012) | 4,000 km (3,701 km navigable by boats with drafts up to 0.9 m) (2011) |
| Pipelines | 540 km refined products (2013) | 2 km condensate, 5900 km gas, 85 km liquid petroleum gas, 1 km oil, 1097 km refined products (2013) |
| Merchant marine | total: 1
by type: general cargo 1 (2020) | total: 840
by type: bulk carrier 26, container ship 28, general cargo 87, oil tanker 257, other 442 (2020) |
| Airports | total: 41 (2013) | total: 101 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 8 (2017)
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2017)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2017)
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2017) | total: 63 (2013)
over 3,047 m: 8 (2013)
2,438 to 3,047 m: 12 (2013)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 23 (2013)
914 to 1,523 m: 14 (2013)
under 914 m: 6 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 33 (2013)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (2013)
914 to 1,523 m: 9 (2013)
under 914 m: 22 (2013) | total: 38 (2013)
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2013)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)
914 to 1,523 m: 10 (2013)
under 914 m: 26 (2013) |
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 12
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,251,961 (2018)
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.53 million mt-km (2018) | number of registered air carriers: 15 (2020)
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 283
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 76,053,042 (2018)
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2,666,260,000 mt-km (2018) |
| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | RDPL | HS |
Source: CIA Factbook
