Rail lines, total route-km
The total length of rail line in the country operated for passenger transport, goods transport, or both, measured in route-kilometers regardless of the number of parallel tracks on a route. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from OECD and International Transport Forum data. Railway statistics lag by several years: the series currently ends in 2021, so the most recent observations are several vintages behind the calendar year. The series complements the rail-freight dataset (stock of network versus flow of goods). Values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: route-kilometers.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- transport
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: route-km) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | — |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | — |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T005954Z-aa3113f83401
Measured- Completeness
- 91.7%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 33.2% | 159 | 15,847 → 198,057median 48,150 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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208 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/rail_lines_total_route_km" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/rail_lines_total_route_km").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/rail_lines_total_route_km
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World Bank. (2026). Rail lines, total route-km [Data set, snapshot 20260924T005954Z-aa3113f83401, sha256 aa3113f83401]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/rail_lines_total_route_km?snapshot=20260924T005954Z-aa3113f83401
@misc{dz_world_bank_rail_lines_total_route_km_aa3113f8,
title = {{Rail lines, total route-km}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/rail_lines_total_route_km?snapshot=20260924T005954Z-aa3113f83401}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T005954Z-aa3113f83401, sha256 aa3113f83401e59b84f1bb7af14e42297010584d3a8b8874b92f567aebde56dd; accessed 2026-09-24}
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