Caption
Car Ownership and Production 1990s
Summary
In this map countries are color-keyed according to the number of people per car in the mid-1990s.
Legend indicates:
- Under 5
- 5-25
- 25-100
- 100-500
- 500-1,000
- Over 1,000
- Increase in car production 1960-90:
- 200-500%
- 500-1,000%
- over 1,000%
Map also includes a brief explanation about car ownership in the industrialized world and in the non-industrialized world, making the case that global inequality can be measured with this indicator.
Source
Oxford Atlas of World History, Oxford University Press, 2002. General Editor Patrick K. O’Brien.
Chapter 5. The Twentieth Century: “Transport and Communication since 1945,” page 282.
Copyright
Map copyright © Philip’s, a division of Octopus Publishing Ltd. Source: Philip’s Atlas of World History.
Used under license from Octopus Publishing Group.
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