5 million (1997)

United States:
575 million (1997)

Uruguay:
1.97 million (1997)

Uzbekistan:
10.8 million (1997)

Vanuatu:
62,000 (1997)

Venezuela:
10.75 million (1997)

Vietnam:
8.2 million (1997)

Virgin Islands:
107,000 (1997)

Wallis and Futuna:
NA

West Bank:
NA; note - most Palestinian households have radios (1999)

Western Sahara:
56,000 (1997)

World:
NA

Yemen:
1.05 million (1997)

Yugoslavia:
3.15 million (1997)

Zambia:
1.03 million (1997)

Zimbabwe:
1.14 million (1997)

Taiwan:
16 million (1994)

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@Railways

Afghanistan:
total: 24.6 km

broad gauge: 9.6 km 1.524-m gauge from Gushgy (Turkmenistan) to
Towraghondi; 15 km 1.524-m gauge from Termiz (Uzbekistan) to
Kheyrabad transshipment point on south bank of Amu Darya

Albania:
total: 447 km

standard gauge: 447 km 1.435-m gauge (2001)

Algeria:
total: 4,820 km

standard gauge: 3,664 km 1.435-m gauge (301 km electrified; 215 km
double track)

narrow gauge: 1,156 km 1.055-m gauge (1996)

American Samoa:
0 km

Andorra:
0 km

Angola:
total: 2,771 km (inland, much of the track is unusable
because of land mines still in place from the civil war)

narrow gauge: 2,648 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2000)

Anguilla:
0 km

Antigua and Barbuda:
total: 77 km

narrow gauge: 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km 0.610-m gauge (used almost
exclusively for handling sugarcane)

Argentina:
total: 33,744 km (167 km electrified)

broad gauge: 20,594 km 1.676-m gauge (141 km electrified)

standard gauge: 2,739 km 1.435-m gauge (26 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 10,154 km 1.000-m gauge; 257 km 0.750-m gauge (2000)

Armenia:
total: 852 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines

broad gauge: 852 km 1.520-m gauge (779 km electrified) (2001)

Aruba:
0 km

Australia:
total: 33,819 km (2,540 km electrified)

broad gauge: 3,719 km 1.600-m gauge

standard gauge: 15,422 km 1.435-m gauge

narrow gauge: 14,506 km 1.067-m gauge

dual gauge: 172 km NA gauges (1999)

Austria:
total: 6,095.2 km (3,643.3 km electrified)

standard gauge: 5,564.2 km 1.435-m gauge (3,521.2 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 497.1 km (33.9 km 1.000-m gauge - 28.1 km
electrified, 497.1 km 0.760-m gauge - 94 k