Honestly this is why miles of rail is a pointless metric.

Number of people moved, how quickly, how far, how affordably, and distributed by population matter more.

I've lived in the US and Europe. Growing up in the US, the nearest public transit, a bus, was about 9 miles away. The roads did not have sidewalks for the vast majority of that and the roads were not designed for bikes. Essentially there was no available transit. If I somehow made it to this stop it would be another 1.5 hr bus ride with transfers to the nearest amtrak station. This wasn't even the most rural part of the US. 8th most populous state in the country and about 20 miles from the 5th most populous city in that state.

I've yet to find anything like that anywhere in the country I'm currently in. Even going on hikes purposefully away from everything there's still closer public transit than growing up.

I've been to plenty of places in the US where you wouldn't find a bus stop for 50 miles.

And this isn't even getting into how expensive and slow US rail is. That's only talking about access.