Road expenditures and revenues - IRF World Road Statistics 2025

The latest edition of the IRF World Road Statistics is available for free through the IRF Data Warehouse. This edition encompasses data for the years 2018 - 2023, for over 200 countries and territories, and over 200 indicators.

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Field Value
Reference period start January 1, 2000
Reference period end December 31, 2023
Geographies
    Regions ['worldwide']
    Topics ['vehicles']
    Category Public Data
    Sources
    Sources 1
    Title
    IRF
    Link
    https://www.irfofficial.org
    Overview Text

    Contains data on road network expenditure (in million USD) for construction, maintenance, and other costs (operation, research, administration, etc.) disaggregated by administrative level.

    Also contains data on road revenue (in million USD) concerning fuel tax, toll and other sources.

    Construction expenditure on roads

    • Expenditure on new construction and extension of existing roads, including reconstruction, renewal and major repairs.

    Maintenance expenditure on roads

    • Expenditure for keeping roads in working order. This includes surface maintenance, patching and running repairs /work relating to roughness of carriageway's wearing course, roadsides, etc.).

    Other expenditures on roads

    • Other expenditures on roads, such as, operations, research, administration, etc.

    Expenditures by administrative level

    • Central government

    • Regional and local government

    • Private sector
    Language en
    Is archived
    Sectors Road
    Modes
      Services
      • Passenger
      • Freight
      Update frequency Annually
      Indicators
      1. Central Government Expenditure
      2. Regional and Local Government Expenditure
      3. Private Sector Expenditure
      4. Construction Expenditure
      5. Maintenance Expenditure
      6. Other Expenditure
      7. Fuel Tax Revenue
      8. Toll Revenue
      9. Other Revenue
      Units
      1. Mio USD
      Dimensioning by source, by type of spend
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        1. d77f5077-144b-4ae4-90b8-437015daee9d
        Data Provider IRF
        URL https://worldroadstatistics.org
        Data Access Recent 6 years of data (2018-2023 for the 2025 edition) are publicly available. WRS Millennium Data (2000-2023) is available for a fee.
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