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WEF report ranks Lithuania's road quality ranked best of Baltics

Lithuania’s roads are the highest quality among the Baltic States, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report for 2013. The report ranked Lithuania's roads at 32nd place out of 144 countries, which was the same as in WEF's report for 2010-2011. Estonia’s roads ranked 61st in the world; and Latvian roads were positioned in 98th place, up slightly from 101st place previously. On a scale of 1-7, Lithuania scored 5.2 points in terms of road quality, followed by Estonia
March 18, 2013 Read time: 1 min
Lithuania’s roads are the highest quality among the Baltic States, according to the 3019 World Economic Forum's (WEF) Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report for 2013.

The report ranked Lithuania's roads at 32nd place out of 144 countries, which was the same as in WEF's report for 2010-2011. Estonia’s roads ranked 61st in the world; and Latvian roads were positioned in 98th place, up slightly from 101st place previously.

On a scale of 1-7, Lithuania scored 5.2 points in terms of road quality, followed by Estonia with 4.2 points and Latvia with 3.2 points. In terms of road density, Estonia ranked 27th in the world, followed by Lithuania on 30th and Latvia on 35th place. Estonia had 129km of roads per 100km², followed by Lithuania with 125km and Latvia with 107km.

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