South and Central Asia Compared by Transport > Vehicle abundance
DEFINITION:
Vehicles per populated land area
Units: Vehicles/Populated Land Area (in km2)
Units: Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data.
Units: Vehicles/Populated Land Area (in km2)
Units: Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data.
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Interesting observations about Transport > Vehicle abundance
- Australia ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Hot countries in 2001.
- Lebanon ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Muslim countries in 2001.
- Belgium ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Christian countries in 2001.
- Netherlands ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst High income OECD countries in 2001.
- Poland ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Emerging markets in 2001.
- Italy ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Catholic countries in 2001.
- Germany ranked second for vehicle abundance amongst Cold countries in 2001.
- Israel ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Former British colonies in 2001.
- South Africa ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Sub-Saharan Africa in 2001.
- Switzerland ranked first for vehicle abundance amongst Landlocked countries in 2001.
- United States ranked second last for vehicle abundance amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2001.