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1371. Motor Vehicle Transportation Indicators for Selected Countries

[129,749 represents 129,749,000]

 
Item United Canada Chile France Germany Japan Mexico Sweden United
States Kingdom
 
NUMBER 1(1,000)
Automobiles 129,749 13,217 1,017 25,900 41,372 46,869 8,607 3,703 21,881
Motorcycles 2 3,786 311 32 2,990 2,717 15,262 270 245 626
Buses 698 64 35 82 84 242 139 15 78
Trucks 77,307 3 3,579 552 5,255 4,216 21,694 4,287 322 3,017
 
Per 1,000 persons:
  Automobiles 484.8 435.7 70.5 441.9 504.1 372.2 88.2 417.7 379.9
  Motorcycles 2 14.1 10.2 2.2 51.0 33.1 121.2 2.8 27.6 10.9
  Buses 2.6 2.1 2.4 1.4 1.0 1.9 1.4 1.7 1.4
  Trucks 288.9 3 117.9 38.3 89.7 51.4 172.3 43.9 36.3 52.4
 
ROADS 4
Total kilometers (1,000) 7,319 902 79 893 656 1,148 252 211 370
Kilometers per 1,000 persons 27.35 29.73 5.48 15.23 7.99 9.11 2.58 23.77 6.42
Kilometers per square kilometer 0.69 0.10 0.11 1.64 1.88 3.06 0.13 0.51 1.53
 
VEHICLE KILOMETERS OF TRAVEL 5
Automobiles (bil.) 2,363 (NA) (NA) 370 517 464 (NA) 58 362
Motorcycles (bil.) 1 16 (NA) (NA) 6 12 (NA) (NA) 1 4
Buses (bil.) 11 (NA) (NA) 2 4 7 (NA) 1 5
Trucks (bil.) 6 1,609 (NA) (NA) 100 53 267 (NA) 7 72
 
AVERAGE VEHICLE KILOMETERS PER VEHICLE 5
Automobiles 18,216 (NA) (NA) 14,286 12,496 9,903 (NA) 15,556 16,544
Motorcycles 1 4,218 (NA) (NA) 2,007 4,343 (NA) (NA) 2,527 6,454
Buses 15,149 (NA) (NA) 28,049 44,038 27,683 (NA) 54,568 61,154
Trucks 6 20,816 (NA) (NA) 19,029 12,453 12,304 (NA) 21,756 23,964


NA Not available.
1 Data for Canada, Chile, Japan, and Mexico are for 1996.
2 Includes mopeds. Data for France are for 1993.
3 Excludes road tractors.
4 Data for Canada are for 1995 and data for Japan are for 1996.
5 Data for Germany and Japan are for 1996.
6 Includes two-axle four-tire vehicles that are not cars. These are vans, sport-utilityvehicles and pickup trucks.

Source: U.S. Federal Highway Administration,Highway Statistics, annual.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm

https://allcountries.org/uscensus/1371_motor_vehicle_transportation_indicators_for_selected.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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