Laos Transportation - 2024

National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 12

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,251,961 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.53 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

RDPL

Airports

18 (2024)

Pipelines

540 km refined products (2013)

Railways

total: 422 km (2023)

standard gauge: 422 km (2023) 1.435-m gauge (422 km overhead electrification)

Roadways

total: 59,647 km (2024)

paved: 13,718 km (2024)

unpaved: 45,929 km (2024)

Waterways

4,600 km (2012) (primarily on the Mekong River and its tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m)

Merchant marine

total: 1 (2023)

by type: general cargo 1