Transport
See also: Transport in Iran| Name | Rank | Out of | Source | Notes | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant marine capacity | 31 | 148 | CIA World Factbook | Iran owns a total of 188 ships of which 73 are Iranian flagged ships & 115 ships sail with foreign flags plus one additional foreign (UAE) owned ship sailing with Iranian flag; More info: Iran Shipping Lines; Iran also has a fleet of 46 marine tankers consisting of 28 VLCC, 9 Suezmax, 5 Aframax, 3 chemical vessels and a single LPG tanker; The total number of tankers is to be increased to 74 by 2013 and to more than 80 by 2015.; National Iranian Tanker Company was the world's fifth largest tanker operator with 43 ships in 2010 & is expected to become the world's third largest tanker company with 74 ships in 2013 | 2008 |
| Rail transport network size | 21 | 151 | International Union of Railways | Total rail network length of 11,106 km; More info: Iran railways | 2008 |
| Road network size | 29 | 191 | CIA World Factbook | Total road network length of 172,927 km | 2006 |
| Total length of pipelines | 8 | 120 | CIA World Factbook | Total pipeline length of 36,509 km; condensate 7 km; condensate/gas 397 km; gas 19,161 km; liquid petroleum gas 570 km; oil 8,438 km; refined products 7,936 km; Iran ranks 4th worldwide by natural gas pipeline length having 32,000 km of gas pipelines in 2010 Iran plans to have 70,000 km of natural gas pipelines by 2025 | 2007 |
| Length of Liquid Petroleum Gas Pipelines | 6 | 17 | CIA World Factbook | 570 km of LPG pipelines | 2006 |
| Length of Oil Pipelines | 6 | 97 | CIA World Factbook | 8,256 km of oil pipelines | 2006 |
| Rapid transit systems | 20 | 53 | Total rapid transit systems statistics by country | 120.1 km of rapid transit network length with 64 stations | 2002 |
| Vehicles per capita | 56 | 144 | List of countries by vehicles per capita | 175 automobiles per 1000 people in addition to 110 motorbikes per 1000 people; More info: Automotive industry in Iran & List of international vehicle registration codes | 2010 |
| Waterways length | 70 | 109 | CIA World Factbook | 850 km of waterways | 2008 |
| Air transport, freight | 59 | 176 | World Bank | 98.22 million tonnes-km/Year airlifted | 2005 |
| Air transport, passengers carried | 26 | 177 | World Bank | 12,708,350 Air passengers/Year; More info: Countries with the most fatal civil airliner accidents | 2005 |
| Number of airports | 26 | 251 | CIA World Factbook | 331 Operational airports | 2007 |
| Number of heliports | 14 | World | CIA World Factbook | 19 Operational heliports | 2010 |
| Rail usage by Annual Passenger-Km Per Capita | 26 | 32 | International Union of Railways | Ranked among countries with more than 5 billion passenger-km/year; Iran: 180 passenger-km Per Capita/Year | 2006 |
| Rail usage by annual Billion Tonne-Kilometers/Year | 20 | 32 | International Union of Railways | Ranked among countries with more than 10 billion tonne-kilometers; Iran: 20.5 billion tonne-kilometers | 2006 |
| Metro systems by annual passenger rides | 18 | 145 | Tehran Metro | 622.2 million passenger rides in 2010; Tehran Metro is the largest and busiest metro system in South Asia and the second largest and busiest in middle east | 2010 |
| Total number of Airports with paved runways | 20 | 227 | CIA World Factbook | 129 Operational airports with paved runways | 2007 |
| Number of airports with paved runways, length: over 3047 meters | 4 | 161 | CIA World Factbook | 40 Airport runways with length of over 3047 m | 2007 |
| Gasoline (Petrol) consumption by transport sector | 10 | 194 | United Nations | Annual gasoline (petrol) consumption of 17,854,000 tonnes by vehicles | 2005 |
| Jet fuel bunker capacity | 21 | 158 | United Nations | National jet fuel bunker capacity of 850,000 tonnes | 2005 |
| Traffic related deaths per capita | 11 | World | List of countries by traffic-related death rate / Smeed's law / Epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions / Traffic injuries in Iran | 35.8 people per 100,000 of population die in traffic accidents yearly; Total annual deaths of 22,918 and 685,000 injured according to WHO report 2009; Leading cause of premature death & disability in Iran; 1.3 million potential life-years lost annually; Male to female death ratio of 5 to 1; Most common causes: not wearing seat belt, taligating, over-speeding, wrong overtakes, not wearing helmets, rapid changing of lanes, not signalling; Property damages worth more than $18 billion per year due to vehicle collisions; More info: Car accidents in Iran, Graph comparisons of Iran & Rapid motorization & traffic injuries in Iran & Statistical comparison of travel safety | 2000 |
| Number of Natural Gas Vehicles by Country | 1 | World | Worldwide NGV Statistics | Iran has the world's largest fleet of vehicles running on CNG at 2.86 million NGVs and 1,800 fueling stations by the end of 2011; Iran is also the world's fastest growing NGV market By end of 2011, Iran's refueling stations had a total of 10,656 gas dispensers with installed cumulative capacity of 1.93 million cubic meters per hour & supplying more than 17 million cubic meters of gas per day to NGV's; The number of fueling stations is to increase to 2,500 by the end of 2012 and to more than 3,000 in 2013 | 2011 |
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