We tried to update this quiz, but unfortunately, we had to defeature it instead. The Wikipedia page on which it is based is a mess now. For one, it misses Monaco. But, more importantly, it includes motorbikes for some countries but not others. This makes Taiwan, which does NOT have a lot of cars, appear in the top 10.
So true. If you want to be on time with public transport you have to go to the bus stop half an hour earlier than they tell you to. It's not a schedule, it's a lottery. But don't get me started on Malta.
an average of 17, that is high! (but a relatively new quiz I think)
I got 17 too, missed new zealand, malta and brunei. Of the other ones I think austria somehow surprised me the most, I think of snow and mountains, so less room for cars haha. And france/netherlands/belgium werent there while germany on one end and spain on the other end were there. And luxembourg,
Ok, it is important to know that some of this data is from 2018 while other is from 2013. A lot could have changed since then (there is even data as far back as 2004 , but not anywhere near the top 20, so I dont think those would have reached the top 20 anyway since then.)
I understand that small rich countries have more cars/capita, still no Belgium surprises me... there are cars just everywhere here. According to wikipedia, we are 23rd with 573.
This is perhaps a better source to use (maybe there are even better ones, but havent been able to find them the last hour)
https://www.acea.be/statistics/tag/category/vehicles-per-capita-by-country It is still not extremely recent, 2016 but it is atleast more recent for over half of the countries that made it to the top20 in this quiz, most of which use 2015 data. Plus (seemingly) having used the same year for a the countries makes it a lot fairer, compared to data gaps of 5+ years.
It is 2017 data (has been updated last in 2019, so seemingly no more recent data s available)
just like in the previous link finland has risen a lot, to number 3 in 2017. And netherlands and belgium join the top 20. Ow... but it is statistics only on europe... Still.. major changes fromt the 2015 data
1 am now.. so any more research now would be counterproductive I think.. would mainly be my head on the keyboard haha.
Got everything except Estonia. Seems odd that no Arabian peninsula countries show up on the list. I was especially expecting to see the UAE and Qatar. Funny that some small island nations show up... can't exactly take a long drive anywhere from Malta.
Estonia is relatively rich as for former communist country. In Poland it's connected also to the distances and, more importantly, higher purchasing value of salaries and lower car prices than before. In my province the most families have 2 or 3 cars.
Apparently, to get high on this list, a country has to be wealthy and people need to travel relatively long distances - or really, really short distances (looking at you, San Marino and Monaco).
It would be interesting to know how many km/miles those cars are driven on average. The people of San Marino and Monaco may be rich and have a lot of cars per capita but I'm sure they only take short trips. To see and to be seen.
I got 17 too, missed new zealand, malta and brunei. Of the other ones I think austria somehow surprised me the most, I think of snow and mountains, so less room for cars haha. And france/netherlands/belgium werent there while germany on one end and spain on the other end were there. And luxembourg,
Even though it is probably an error on the wikipedia page, there are probably more than 683 000 cars in the country.
https://www.acea.be/statistics/tag/category/vehicles-per-capita-by-country It is still not extremely recent, 2016 but it is atleast more recent for over half of the countries that made it to the top20 in this quiz, most of which use 2015 data. Plus (seemingly) having used the same year for a the countries makes it a lot fairer, compared to data gaps of 5+ years.
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=road_eqs_carhab&lang=en
It is 2017 data (has been updated last in 2019, so seemingly no more recent data s available)
just like in the previous link finland has risen a lot, to number 3 in 2017. And netherlands and belgium join the top 20. Ow... but it is statistics only on europe... Still.. major changes fromt the 2015 data
1 am now.. so any more research now would be counterproductive I think.. would mainly be my head on the keyboard haha.