U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
202-366-4000
OCTOBER 1999
TABLE IN-3
ASIA | EUROPE | AMERICA | |||||||
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JAPAN 1/ | FRANCE | GERMANY | SWEDEN | UNITED KINGDOM | CANADA 1/ | CHILE 1/ | MEXICO 1/ | UNITED STATES | |
Number of Automobiles | 46,868,712 | 25,900,000 | 41,371,992 | 3,702,778 | 21,881,000 | 13,217,336 | 1,017,052 | 8,607,000 | 129,748,704 |
Number of Motorcycles and Mopeds 2/ | 15,262,000 | 2,990,000 | 2,716,780 | 244,925 | 626,000 | 310,788 | 32,179 | 270,000 | 3,786,303 |
Number of Buses | 242,243 | 82,000 | 84,019 | 14,844 | 78,000 | 64,155 | 34,734 | 139,000 | 697,548 |
Number of Trucks | 21,694,118 | 5,255,000 | 4,215,718 | 321,749 | 3,017,000 | 3,579,497 3/ |
552,091 | 4,287,000 | 77,307,408 |
Automobiles per 1000 Persons | 372.2 | 441.9 | 504.1 | 417.7 | 379.9 | 435.7 | 70.5 | 88.2 | 484.8 |
Motorcycle and Mopeds per 1000 Persons | 121.2 | 51.0 | 33.1 | 27.6 | 10.9 | 10.2 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 14.1 |
Buses per 1000 Persons | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 2.6 |
Trucks per 1000 Persons  | 172.3 | 89.7 | 51.4 | 36.3 | 52.4 | 117.9 | 38.3 | 43.9 | 288.9 |
Sources: Prepared from "World Road Statistics," International Road Federation, 1999, "1997 Highway Statistics ," FHWA.
1/ The data are for 1996.
2/ Data for Canada are for 1995.
3/ Trucks for Canada in 1997 do not include Road Tractors.