Total Rapid Transit Systems Statistics By Country

This table is based on List of rapid transit (metro) systems. Countries can be sorted by total length of rapid transit systems, total number of stations and the year of opening of the earliest system.

Rank Country Total length of
rapid transit
systems (km)
Total number of
stations in rapid
transit systems
The year
first system
was opened
1 China 2222.0 1445 1969
2 United States 1232.4 973 1897
3 South Korea 797.1 669 1974
4 Germany 772.8 654 1902
5 Japan 769.7 678 1927
6 Spain 666.5 739 1919
7 United Kingdom 524.1 390 1863
8 Russia 517.6 332 1935
9 France 353.3 484 1900
10 Brazil 305.6 222 1974
11 Mexico 281.2 256 1969
12 India 255.7 200 1984
13 Italy 221.8 270 1955
14 Canada 207.7 184 1954
15 Singapore 199.4 141 1987
16 Taiwan 160.5 145 1996
17 Turkey 147.8 126 1989
18 Chile 145.2 128 1975
19 Iran 135.0 91 1999
20 Ukraine 128.9 97 1960
21 Portugal 115.5 136 1959
22 Sweden 105.7 100 1950
23 Netherlands 97.8 114 1968
24 Norway 84.2 105 1966
25 Venezuela 75.3 64 1983
26 UAE 74.6 43 2009
27 Austria 74.2 101 1976
28 Greece 73.8 56 1904
29 Egypt 69.8 58 1987
30 Romania 69.3 51 1979
31 Malaysia 64.6 60 1996
32 Czech Republic 59.3 54 1974
33 Thailand 52.5 49 1999
34 Belgium 50.8 68 1976
35 Argentina 48.4 79 1913
36 Philippines 47.8 44 1984
37 Uzbekistan 39.1 29 1977
38 Belarus 35.5 28 1984
39 Azerbaijan 34.6 23 1967
40 Hungary 32.1 40 1896
41 Colombia 32.0 27 1995
42 Bulgaria 31.5 27 1998
43 Georgia 26.4 22 1966
44 Dominican Republic 24.8 30 2009
45 Poland 23.1 21 1995
46 North Korea 22.5 17 1973
47 Finland 22.1 17 1982
48 Peru 21.5 16 2001
49 Denmark 21.0 22 2002
50 Saudi Arabia 18.1 15 2010
51 Switzerland 13.7 29 1991
52 Armenia 13.4 10 1981
53 Algeria 9.5 10 2011
54 Kazakhstan 8.6 7 2011

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