Transport > Vehicle abundance: Countries Compared

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.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Netherlands	196.48 per square km	2001
2	Japan	187.53 per square km	2001
3	Belgium	153.24 per square km	2001
4	Germany	124.34 per square km	2001
5	Italy	115.31 per square km	2001
6	Iceland	113.84 per square km	2001
7	South Korea	110.36 per square km	2001
8	Lebanon	104.9 per square km	2001
9	United Kingdom	101.4 per square km	2001
10	Switzerland	96.52 per square km	2001
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	95.72 per square km	2001
11	Israel	78.41 per square km	2001
12	North Korea	69.45 per square km	2001
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	64.92 per square km	2001
	Eurozone average (profile)	62.32 per square km	2001
13	France	60 per square km	2001
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	55.88 per square km	2001
	NATO countries average (profile)	52.69 per square km	2001
14	Austria	52.48 per square km	2001
	European Union average (profile)	51.71 per square km	2001
15	Denmark	50.91 per square km	2001
16	Czech Republic	48.33 per square km	2001
17	Australia	47.91 per square km	2001
18	United States	46.56 per square km	2001
19	Slovenia	45.12 per square km	2001
20	Kuwait	39.69 per square km	2001
21	Portugal	37.74 per square km	2001
22	Spain	37.42 per square km	2001
23	Poland	36.32 per square km	2001
24	Canada	34.91 per square km	2001
25	Libya	33.24 per square km	2001
	Cold countries average (profile)	33.09 per square km	2001
26	Hungary	29.97 per square km	2001
27	Slovakia	29.1 per square km	2001
28	Trinidad and Tobago	28.61 per square km	2001
29	Greece	28.5 per square km	2001
30	New Zealand	25.26 per square km	2001
	Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile)	20.76 per square km	2001
31	Bulgaria	20.17 per square km	2001
32	Norway	19.42 per square km	2001
33	Sweden	18.84 per square km	2001
34	Croatia	18.52 per square km	2001
35	Lithuania	18.46 per square km	2001
36	Nepal	18.17 per square km	2001
37	El Salvador	17.49 per square km	2001
38	Egypt	17.23 per square km	2001
39	Ireland	16.21 per square km	2001
40	Finland	15.67 per square km	2001
41	Romania	15.12 per square km	2001
42	Turkmenistan	14.16 per square km	2001
43	Uzbekistan	14.15 per square km	2001
44	Estonia	12.96 per square km	2001
45	Malaysia	12.81 per square km	2001
46	Thailand	12.36 per square km	2001
47	Republic of Macedonia	11.95 per square km	2001
48	Jamaica	11.54 per square km	2001
49	Vietnam	10.93 per square km	2001
50	Mexico	10.91 per square km	2001
51	Latvia	10.24 per square km	2001
52	Costa Rica	10.15 per square km	2001
	Emerging markets average (profile)	10.04 per square km	2001
	OPEC countries average (profile)	9.67 per square km	2001
53	Sri Lanka	9.59 per square km	2001
54	Moldova	9.25 per square km	2001
55	South Africa	9.14 per square km	2001
56	Ukraine	8.17 per square km	2001
	Muslim countries average (profile)	8.03 per square km	2001
57	Jordan	7.99 per square km	2001
58	Dominica	7.88 per square km	2001
	Former Soviet republics average (profile)	7.61 per square km	2001
59	Philippines	7.42 per square km	2001
60	Burundi	7.04 per square km	2001
61	Turkey	7.01 per square km	2001
62	Guatemala	7 per square km	2001
63	Belarus	6.78 per square km	2001
64	Chile	6.39 per square km	2001
65	Tunisia	5.99 per square km	2001
	Former French colonies average (profile)	5.92 per square km	2001
	South and Central Asia average (profile)	5.82 per square km	2001
66	Russia	5.66 per square km	2001
67	Panama	5.59 per square km	2001
	Former Spanish colonies average (profile)	5.38 per square km	2001
68	Venezuela	5.17 per square km	2001
69	Albania	4.99 per square km	2001
70	Argentina	4.67 per square km	2001
71	Morocco	4.46 per square km	2001
72	Uruguay	4.4 per square km	2001
73	Azerbaijan	4.36 per square km	2001
74	Algeria	4.2 per square km	2001
75	Brazil	4.06 per square km	2001
76	Honduras	3.92 per square km	2001
=77	Ecuador	3.68 per square km	2001
=77	Saudi Arabia	3.68 per square km	2001
79	Colombia	3.43 per square km	2001
80	United Arab Emirates	3.4 per square km	2001
=81	Indonesia	3.26 per square km	2001
=81	Cuba	3.26 per square km	2001
83	Nigeria	2.69 per square km	2001
84	Iraq	2.54 per square km	2001
85	India	2.5 per square km	2001
=86	Syria	2.43 per square km	2001
=86	Botswana	2.43 per square km	2001
88	Namibia	2.16 per square km	2001
89	Togo	2.12 per square km	2001
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.09 per square km	2001
91	Haiti	2.05 per square km	2001
92	The Gambia	1.83 per square km	2001
93	China	1.77 per square km	2001
94	Iran	1.66 per square km	2001
95	Pakistan	1.58 per square km	2001
96	Oman	1.54 per square km	2001
	South Asia average (profile)	1.44 per square km	2001
97	Peru	1.42 per square km	2001
98	Cote d'Ivoire	1.41 per square km	2001
99	Kenya	1.24 per square km	2001
100	Kazakhstan	1.11 per square km	2001
101	Rwanda	1.1 per square km	2001
102	Zimbabwe	0.99 per square km	2001
	failed states average (profile)	0.986 per square km	2001
103	Bangladesh	0.97 per square km	2001
104	Kyrgyzstan	0.93 per square km	2001
105	Mongolia	0.91 per square km	2001
106	Bolivia	0.82 per square km	2001
107	Paraguay	0.78 per square km	2001
108	Bhutan	0.71 per square km	2001
109	Ghana	0.66 per square km	2001
110	Senegal	0.64 per square km	2001
111	Zambia	0.61 per square km	2001
112	Malawi	0.6 per square km	2001
113	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.59 per square km	2001
114	Uganda	0.55 per square km	2001
115	Guinea-Bissau	0.46 per square km	2001
116	Angola	0.45 per square km	2001
117	Cambodia	0.44 per square km	2001
118	Gabon	0.43 per square km	2001
119	Cameroon	0.42 per square km	2001
=120	Benin	0.41 per square km	2001
=120	Nicaragua	0.41 per square km	2001
122	Liberia	0.37 per square km	2001
123	Sierra Leone	0.35 per square km	2001
124	Papua New Guinea	0.27 per square km	2001
125	Sudan	0.26 per square km	2001
=126	Madagascar	0.23 per square km	2001
=126	Mauritania	0.23 per square km	2001
128	Burkina Faso	0.22 per square km	2001
129	Niger	0.2 per square km	2001
130	Armenia	0.19 per square km	2001
131	Tanzania	0.16 per square km	2001
132	Guinea	0.15 per square km	2001
133	Burma	0.12 per square km	2001
134	Tajikistan	0.11 per square km	2001
=135	Laos	0.1 per square km	2001
=135	Mali	0.1 per square km	2001
137	Ethiopia	0.09 per square km	2001
138	Chad	0.08 per square km	2001
139	Mozambique	0.02 per square km	2001
=140	Central African Republic	0.01 per square km	2001
=140	Somalia	0.01 per square km	2001

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