Mobility layer
Cars per 1,000 people by country
Compare registered vehicles per 1,000 people across countries.
Compare cars per 1,000 people across countries on an interactive world map. Open any country for the latest value, the comparable-sample rank, the source, and the method.
What this measures
Higher registered-vehicle density; lower registered-vehicle density.
Unit: per 1,000 people. Registered vehicles per 1,000 people.
Methodology
Values are Our World in Data registered vehicles per 1,000 people, calculated from WHO Global Health Observatory registered-vehicle counts and UN World Population Prospects. Registered vehicles are those reported to a government agency; national definitions can include cars, buses, freight vehicles, and in some countries two- and three-wheelers. The GHO extract is one latest observation per country, mostly 2016; values are shown on catalog year 2016 with the source year retained as metadata. Country rows are joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. Map ranks are comparable-sample competition ranks among currently loaded countries. Missing countries remain without a value.
Coverage & source
- Source
- Our World in Data (WHO GHO; UN WPP)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Period
- 2016
- Frequency
- With WHO GSRRS / GHO releases
- Data nature
- observed
Rankings, where shown, describe only countries with comparable values in the selected period.