World Bank data shows China's highway network has grown from 163,000 km in 2000 to 600,000 km in 2025, nearly tripling its share of world highways to

China Data Portal (2026). Retrieved from https://chinadata.live/data/highway-length-china-vs-world/. From China The world's highway network reached 1.95 million kilometers in 2025, up from 1.

2 million km a quarter-century earlier. What's less obvious is that more than half of that expansion — 437,000 km — happened in a single country. China's share of global highways has swelled from 13.6% in 2000 to 30.

8% in 2025, a near-tripling documented in World Bank data collated by China Data Portal. Top of the chart The 1.95 million km figure for 2025 is the highest world total on record.

Nearly all of the net 750,000 km added since 2000 — 58% — landed in China.

The country now operates 600,000 km of highways, meaning roughly one out of every three kilometers of roadway classified as highway anywhere on Earth sits inside its borders.

That's a dominance not seen in any other transport infrastructure category. The other end China's 13.6% share in 2000 was the dataset's lowest, a far cry from the eventual 30.8%.

At that point, the country had just 163,000 km of highways — less than the length of many national networks today — and barely a seventh of the world's total.

The figure marks the starting line of an unparalleled infrastructure ramp-up that has reshaped global freight corridors. What separates the two The 17.

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