Japan - Rail lines

Rail lines (total route-km)

The value for Rail lines (total route-km) in Japan was 19,123 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29,809 in 2001 and a minimum value of 15,108 in 2016.

Definition: Rail lines are the length of railway route available for train service, irrespective of the number of parallel tracks.

Source: Internation Union of Railways (UIC)

See also:

Year Value
1995 20,134
1996 20,223
1997 20,243
1998 20,170
1999 29,804
2000 29,799
2001 29,809
2002 22,197
2003 20,067
2004 27,591
2005 20,052
2006 20,050
2007 20,048
2008 20,036
2009 24,506
2010 20,140
2011 20,087
2012 19,435
2013 19,436
2014 16,703
2015 16,704
2016 15,108
2017 19,249
2018 19,123

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation