Car Ownership and Production, 1960-90

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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