Transport

Transport

Transportation infrastructure worldwide includes:

• Airports
  • Total: 49,973 (2004)
• Roadways (in kilometres)
  • Total: 32,345,165 km
  • Paved: 19,403,061 km
  • Unpaved: 12,942,104 km (2002)
• Railways
  • Total: 1,122,650 km includes about 190,000 to 195,000 km of electrified routes of which 147,760 km are in Europe, 24,509 km in theFar East, 11,050 km in Africa, 4,223 km in South America, and 4,160 km in North America.

[edit]Military

• Military expenditures - dollar figure: aggregate real expenditure on arms worldwide in 1999 remained at approximately the 1998 level, about $750 billion, about 1/2 of which was the United States (1999)
• Military expenditures - percent of GDP: roughly 2% of gross world product (1999).