Tallest Bridges in the World
About This Dataset
Tallest Bridges in the World
A bridge's structural height is measured from its lowest visible point to the top of its towers, which is different from how high the deck sits above the ground. This chart ranks completed bridges by structural height; bridges still under construction are excluded.
Analysis
Changtai Yangtze River Bridge is the tallest completed bridge at 352 metres, 15.600000000000023 metres above Millau Viaduct. 7 of these 12 bridges are in China, which has built most of the world's tallest crossings in the past two decades - the median opening year on this chart is 2019. Structural height is not the same as deck height: these towers are tall because the spans they carry are long, not because the roadway is unusually high above the valley floor.
Key Findings
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Changtai Yangtze River Bridge leads in Structural height (metres) with 352.
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Average Structural height (metres): 317 · median: 321.
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Gap: Changtai Yangtze River Bridge is 1.2× larger than Stonecutters Bridge.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of tallest bridges
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 12 observations
- Measure
- Structural height (metres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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