The table below shows the number of motor vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants in eight countries in 1990 and 2000.
The graphs show the amount of private transportation as motor for every 1000 residents in 8 countries between 1990 and 2000.
Overall, Brazil and Romania witnessed huge increases in the ratio of vehicles per population, while Cambodia had the lowest figures of all eight countries in both years. The Bahamas is also showing a downward trend.
In 1990, the highest rates of vehicles per 1000 people were found in Luxembourg and New Zealand, at 548 and 531 vehicles per thousand persons, respectively. The Bahamas followed, with 235 vehicles. Meanwhile the figures for Brazil, Chile, Jordan, and Romania fluctuated between 50 and 58.
By 2000, the figures for Brazil and Romania had increased more than tenfold, reaching 13,580 and 8012. Vehicle numbers in Luxembourg and Chile increased slightly, to 728 and 88 per 1000 people, while the figure for Jordan tripled. The figures for New Zealand and Cambodia stayed relatively the same, however the number of vehicles per 1000 people in the Bahamas dropped to 187.
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