China - Rail lines

Rail lines (total route-km)

The value for Rail lines (total route-km) in China was 68,141 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 83,717 in 2016 and a minimum value of 54,616 in 1995.

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)

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Year Value
1995 54,616
1996 56,678
1997 57,566
1998 57,583
1999 57,394
2000 58,656
2001 59,079
2002 59,530
2003 60,446
2004 61,015
2005 62,200
2006 63,412
2007 63,637
2008 60,809
2009 65,491
2010 66,239
2011 66,041
2012 66,298
2013 66,585
2014 66,989
2015 67,212
2016 83,717
2017 67,278
2018 67,515
2019 68,141

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation