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Transport > Roads Stats: compare key data on The Bahamas & United States

Definitions

  • Motor vehicles > Per 1,000 people: Motor vehicles (per 1,000 people). Motor vehicles include cars, buses, and freight vehicles but do not include two-wheelers. Population refers to midyear population in the year for which data are available.
  • Passenger cars > Per 1,000 people: Passenger cars (per 1,000 people). Passenger cars refer to road motor vehicles, other than two-wheelers, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine people (including the driver).
  • Paved > % of total roads: Paved roads are those surfaced with crushed stone (macadam) and hydrocarbon binder or bituminized agents, with concrete, or with cobblestones, as a percentage of all the country's roads, measured in length."
  • Roads, paved > % of total roads: Roads, paved (% of total roads). Paved roads are those surfaced with crushed stone (macadam) and hydrocarbon binder or bituminized agents, with concrete, or with cobblestones, as a percentage of all the country's roads, measured in length.
  • Roads, total network > Km: Roads, total network (km). Total road network includes motorways, highways, and main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and all other roads in a country. A motorway is a road designed and built for motor traffic that separates the traffic flowing in opposite directions.
  • Roads, total network > Km per 1000: Roads, total network (km). Total road network includes motorways, highways, and main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and all other roads in a country. A motorway is a road designed and built for motor traffic that separates the traffic flowing in opposite directions. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Total network > Km: Total road network includes motorways, highways, and main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and all other roads in a country. A motorway is a road designed and built for motor traffic that separates the traffic flowing in opposite directions."
STAT The Bahamas United States HISTORY
Motor vehicles > Per 1,000 people 81
Ranked 90th.
797
Ranked 2nd. 10 times more than The Bahamas

Passenger cars > Per 1,000 people 290
Ranked 2nd.
423
Ranked 30th. 46% more than The Bahamas

Paved > % of total roads 57.4%
Ranked 41st.
65.34%
Ranked 26th. 14% more than The Bahamas

Roads, paved > % of total roads 57.4%
Ranked 43th.
100%
Ranked 11th. 74% more than The Bahamas

Roads, total network > Km 2,693
Ranked 121st.
6.55 million
Ranked 1st. 2430 times more than The Bahamas

Roads, total network > Km per 1000 9.04
Ranked 34th.
21.16
Ranked 10th. 2 times more than The Bahamas

Total network > Km 2,693
Ranked 126th.
6.54 million
Ranked 1st. 2430 times more than The Bahamas

SOURCES: International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and data files.; International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and electronic files, except where noted.; International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and electronic files, except where noted. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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