Passenger traffic of railways | Arab World – yearly data, chart and table

Passenger traffic of railways of  in 2005 amounted to 571.00 million passenger-km, which is 8.35% more than in 2004, when it was  527.00 million passenger-km. This is the first year of growth after a decline. According to the International Union of Railways (UIC) statistics, since 2002, the volume of railways traffic has increased in 1.00 times. The lowest passenger traffic of railways was recorded in 2004, with a value of 527.00 million passenger-km. The maximum in  was in 2005, when it reached 571.00 million passenger-km. Passenger-km is a standard unit of measurement used in transport statistics to express the total passenger traffic. It combines both the number of passengers and the distance travelled into a single metric. The data from UIC is based on voluntary reporting by railway companies, and can show drastic increases or decreases for some of the years due to lack of reporting by some of the companies in that country.