Yahoo Autos There Are 1.5 Billion Cars In The World... And Counting
To the surprise of literally no one, there are a hell of a lot of cars on the roads of the world right now – nearly 1.5 billion if we’re counting. That right there is a huge number even when you compare it to just a couple of decades ago. As recently as 14 years ago, that number was estimated to be in the millions, according to The Drive. With an exploding in vehicle production and reliability, that number has increased significantly.
It’s pretty hard to say exactly how many cars there are in the world, but automotive industry research firm Hedges & Company gave it their best shot. If you ask them, their best estimate is about 1.47 billion vehicles on the world.
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North America: 358 million vehicles (292.3 million in the U.S. alone)
South America: has 84 million vehicles
Middle East: 50 million vehicles
Africa: 26 million vehicles
Antarctica: 50 vehicles
Well, we’ve covered how many cars there probably are on Earth, let’s check out the concentration of cars to citizens of the world. If the WorldOMeter is to be believed – there are a little under 8.1 billion people on Earth right now. Some quick math from The Drive will show us that there is about one car for every 5.75 people.
That means that there are enough cars on the road for just 17% of the world’s population. However, that doesn’t mean that 17% of people own a car—that count doesn’t take into consideration people who own multiple cars, children, the elderly, and other people who don’t drive for a myriad of other reasons.
Despite China having such a large number of vehicles on the road, its 415 million only provides enough vehicles for one out of every 3.5 people living in the country, which totals a population of 1.43 billion residents. The remaining residents of Asia, however, bring the overall concentration of vehicles down quite a bit. When accounting for the rest of the continent, there are only 140 vehicles per 1,000 residents.
North America has the highest concentration with 710 vehicles per 1,000 people. The U.S. had about 278 million registered cars as of 2021, and the country spreads that number across its 331.9 million residents. This accounts for roughly one car on the street for every 1.2 people living in the country, or nearly three times more crowded than China.
