The table below gives information about rail transport in four countries in 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main deatures, and make comparisions where relevant. Write atleast 150 words.

The table below demonstrates the data about rail transportation across Malaysia,

Canada

,

China

and the

UAE

in the year

of

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2007.

Overall

, the Chinese were the largest users of the railways,

whereas

Canadians hardly used

this

mode of transport.

However

, the usage of the rail network for

cargo

was the highest in

Canada

. Malaysia and the

UAE

had almost similar figures. Focusing on

China

and

Canada

, railways were quite popular among the people of

China

with about 27% of them using it, which is about ninety times higher than that of

Canada

. The average distance travelled by a citizen of the former was 1980 kilometres,

whereas

the latter had only around 80 kilometres per head.

In contrast

,

Canada

was the largest user of rail for the transportation of

cargo

with 2820 billion tons of material transported using

this

network, a whopping

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125% more than

China

. With regards to Malaysia and the

UAE

, their numbers were almost the same with about 5.9% and 5.5% of the population respectively using trains for transport. In terms of

cargo

, the

UAE

used trains to transport only 21.9 billion tons of

cargo

, which is the lowest among all the countries compared.