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World Development Indicators
Publisher: World Bank | | World Fact Book
Publisher: CIAÂ |
The World Development Indicators are published annually for 152 economies with populations of more than 1 million. The full set of indicators is available at the above link, and include transport data such as:
• Transport services (PDF 144 KB)
• Traffic and congestion (PDF 122 KB)
• Rural Access Index (for selected countries) (PDF 35 KB)
• Mortality caused by traffic injury(PDF 97 KB)
• Investment in transport projects with private participation (PDF 126 KB)
  |  | Latest webpage for more than 210 countries provides information on:
• Number of airport and heliports
• Total railway network length and length by gauge category
• Total road network length, paved and unpaved road length
• Total waterways length
• Number of merchant marine ships with 1000 GRT or over  |
Development Data Platform
Publisher: World Bank Intranet | Â | Glossary for transport statistics -Â Fourth edition (2009)
Publisher: UNECE, ECMT and Eurostat |
The Development Data Platform (DDP)Â is a comprehensive database which contains a wide variety of indicators for development. We regret that if you are not a staff member of the World Bank, you will be unable to access the above link.
Some external DDP data is available via World Bank Data & Statistics website. |  | The Glossary for transport statistics  (PDF 4,080 KB) was published for the first time in 1994 with the purpose of assisting member countries during the collection of data on transport made by the UNECE, ECMT and Eurostat through the Common Questionnaire. The Glossary now comprises 533 definitions and represents a point of reference for all those involved in transport statistics.
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World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
Publishers: World Health Organization, World Bank |  | International Fuel Prices
Publisher: GTZÂ |
The World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention is the first major report jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on this subject. It underscores their concern that unsafe road traffic systems are seriously harming global public health and development. It contends that the level of road traffic injury is unacceptable and that it is largely avoidable. The statistical annex provides the number and rate per 100,000 population of mortality caused by road traffic by countries.
See also:Â Global Traffic Mortality Map
   |  | International Fuel Prices is a long-term initiative by GTZ since 1991. The latest report, International Fuel Prices 2007 which is now available on-line, includes diesel and super gasoline retail prices in 2006 for more than 170 countries. The report also focuses on the special theme of enhancing energy efficiency in the transport sector, as well as the cost of promoting biofuels. Both the data preview and the full report (PDF 5.72 MB) are available.
See also:Â Global Map of Fuel Retail Price 2006
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World Road Statistics
Publisher: International Road Federation | Â | World Bank Railways Database
Publisher: World Bank (Media: Excel File) |
The latest annual edition of the International Road Federation's World Road Statistics can be purchased online and provides information for more than 185 countries on:
• Road length by category
• Road traffic
• Vehicle in use
• Road accidents
• Road expenditure
   |  | Contains selected size, scale and productivity data for all railways 1980-99. The above link is to the railway data table in MS-Excel. The table is also available as a PDF document (274 KB).
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