{
  "study": {
    "slug": "rail-freight-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Rail Moves One Sixth of the EU's Inland Freight and Almost None of Ireland's",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/rail-freight-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Share of inland freight carried by rail, 2024",
  "valueHeading": "% of tonne-kilometres",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 25 EU Member States with a railway, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "Cyprus and Malta have no railway network and are absent from the rail series rather than recorded at zero. The EU figure is flagged by Eurostat as an estimate.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Modal split of inland freight transport",
    "code": "tran_hv_frmod",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "tra_mode": "RAIL, ROAD, IWW",
      "unit": "PC",
      "time": "2024"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-09-17",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-03-04",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/tran_hv_frmod",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tran_hv_frmod/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Lithuania",
      "value": 37.7,
      "gap_to_reference": 21.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Latvia",
      "value": 35.1,
      "gap_to_reference": 18.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Slovenia",
      "value": 31.1,
      "gap_to_reference": 14.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 16.6,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 3.9,
      "gap_to_reference": -12.7,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": 1.3,
      "gap_to_reference": -15.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Ireland",
      "value": 0.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -16,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}