Car Ownership by Country (www.visualcapitalist.com)

submitted 2 years ago by pilotman to c/newzealand

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[-] pilotman 16 points 2 years ago

TIL that NZ has the highest car ownership in the world.

[-] evanuggetpi 2 points 2 years ago

Well that's depressing

[-] Venator 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a few small tax havens that have worse per capita stats: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_and_territories_by_motor_vehicles_per_capita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8R81DBF0o&list=PLo-Yp_Um9P5OP-QYm30XJQ5YM7a_AyxNi

[-] liv 15 points 2 years ago

I misread the title and came in thinking it was about cats. I think we have a high proportion of those as well.

Solved it. Cats cause cars.

[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Ironic because cars cause less cats

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me too! Was wondering when the cats would show up

[-] i_am_a_cardboard_box@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Same, was very surprised. Also there are almost zero to no cats in New Zealand, they are extremely protective of their native bird species.

[-] liv 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry to burst your bubble but New Zealand has one of the highest per capita rates of cat ownership in the world.

Also, only 6% of New Zealanders keep their cats inside and 30% of them are opposed to keeping cats inside.

[-] Dave 12 points 2 years ago

We have many small cities with nothing between them, very little intercity rail services, and an easy source of cheap second hand cars. I'm surprised we are first but I would have put money on top 10.

[-] Zanshi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'd say it's very similar in Poland. A lot of small cities and villages, barely connected by roads and with little to no rails. Public transport is good but only in big cities. In those smaller ones, you're lucky if there's more than on bus per line per hour.
This is my firsthand experience, as I'm from one of those. 15 years ago there was a bus every 15-20 minutes. Nowadays there's one per hour, sometimes less.

[-] BalpeenHammer 4 points 2 years ago

Even if you never traveled between cities the public transportation is dismal.

[-] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm honestly surprised that the US is in second, off the top of my head I only know one person that doesn't own a car but her boyfriend has one that they share.

[-] oo1@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Probably NY,NY dragging the USA down as usual. /s

[-] louisinidus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Latest data usa is first. We're still second though, so not great

[-] Ilovethebomb 4 points 2 years ago

Something that brings that average up, in my view, is the number of classic cars we have on the road. These are vehicles that don't do a lot of driving, but are technically in use.

There's also a lot of people, especially trades, that have company vehicles that they can't use for personal use, so they also have their own vehicle.