https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cars-by-country
Diese Daten der Website World Population Review zeigen, dass Finnland das achtgrößte Auto pro Kopf der Welt hat. (San Marino steht auf Platz 1 dieser Liste.)
Auf 1000 Einwohner kommen in Finnland 950 Autos. Damit ist Finnland das Land mit den meisten Autos pro Person, wenn man die extrem kleinen Länder auf den Plätzen 1 bis 7 dieser Liste ausschließt.
Ich war sehr überrascht, dass Finnland mehr Autos pro Kopf hat als die Vereinigten Staaten. Ich war noch nie in Finnland (ich komme aus Kalifornien). Mich interessiert, wie die Autokultur dort ist. Unterscheidet es sich von anderen europäischen Ländern? Ist es üblich, dass Familien mehrere Autos haben? Kommt es in dicht besiedelten Gebieten zu starken Verkehrsstaus?
Ich habe mir die städtischen Gebiete der nordischen Länder immer als fußgängerfreundlich, autofrei und voller guter öffentlicher Verkehrsmittel vorgestellt. Ein Paradies für jeden r/urbanismus Mitglied. Ist das nicht in den meisten Teilen Finnlands der Fall? Ist das autofreie urbane Paradies nur im Großraum Helsinki Realität? Oder sind tatsächlich viele Autos auf den Straßen Helsinkis unterwegs?
Vielen Dank, dass Sie mir geholfen haben, die finnische Autokultur zu verstehen. Ich weiß das sehr zu schätzen! =]
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Von Kanjiro
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Country with long distances. Also a lot of older cars are kept instead of demolishing.
Huge distances, low density, basically a forrest, still has dirt roads in many places hence 2 cars per household (shit car – always old Volvo + some Toyota or škoda for city/job) registration also includes semi farming equipment as a car, for example small van categories, many dairy farms have multiple cars, kids get shit/good volvos as heirloom etc etc etc
Especially outside large cities, the public transportation is from poor to nonexisting.
We have a pretty low population density outside of the big cities. While I believe the major cities have pretty good public transportation, outside of that you’re basically required to have a car to go or do anything.
Distance, in those countries above Finland on the list you could basicly walk anywhere. In Finland one dont simply walk or cycle from Helsinki to Oulu, etc.
Personally I wonder how many are modded for rally?
Finns have a lot of summer cabins. A nuisance to get there with public transport.
Two simple reasons: 1) Low population density 2) Thoroughly populated country.
Norway and Sweden are both low population density aswell, but they are basically populated only in the south.
That statistic is a bit weird number. As far as passenger cars go, the real number is 2.7 million so I am not sure what is being counted towards 5+ million vehicles.
Wikipedia disagrees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_motor_vehicles_per_capita
I bought a car few months after arriving in Finland. If you live outside Helsinki area it’s very hard to stay without a car. Also, insurance price and general costs are quite low compared to my home country, which motivated me to get one.
You ask this and not why there’s so many cars in those tiny countries? Have you seen the length of Finland, it takes 12 hours to drive from south to the North. You can get by plane or train only to certain places. Both are expensive, it’s way cheaper to pack 4 people in a car than a train. You get actual working public transport only in bigger cities, the rest you are lucky of there’s a bus twice a day, if at all.
Like two redditors have already said, this stat seems wrong. All the sources I’ve seen thus far show around .75 cars per person.
The source states „The category ‘cars’ includes automobiles, pickup trucks, SUVs, vans, buses, and freight and other commercial trucks, but excludes two-wheelers.“
I don’t know how much bus and truck fleets and other such vehicles can skew the stat?
Anyhow, many people prefer the freedom related with having your own car. Public transport is good or great inside of the bigger cities and useful for school kids in many smaller ones, but the coverage drops off quick: I’m about 20 km away from the center of my region’s „big city“, but if I were to commute by bus, I’d have to hang around for a long time both going there and coming back, as the bus goes so sparsely.
Theres more saunas than cars in finland so this 5,3 mil is wrong.
Those are all possible vehicles, meaning also moped cars, trucks, all-terrain vehicles and so on. Finland is a big playground. Five million inhabitants in a country as big as Germany.
I’d love to not own a car but then I couldnt get to work
If you dont live in the city you basicly cant do anything. And the jonnes have huge car culture in here. They go batshit crazy when they get to talk about cars….
I looked into this before. I think Finns have over 1 million old cars rotting in gardens all over the country.
We just had the discussion last week that some rules changed and we now can finally get rid of our „ghost car“. You see, years ago we had an engine issue while abroad, an issue that we had just fixed a few months prior and were unwilling to fix *again* due to the price. We left the car in the other country, properly disposed off, with paperwork. Only when we informed Finnish authorities and wanted to „delete“ the car from our papers, we were told we cannot, as the car wasn’t destroyed in Finland. We were told that the car that no longer existed would continue to exist as a ghost in Finnish register files and not to worry, there are a lot of ghost cars. So, that is one point that might feed into statistics.
Another one is the wide use of summer cars, meaning either classic cars that are used as pleasure rides in the summer or old beater cars that only work half reliably during the summer. A lot of people have one of those in the garage, and one normal modern reliable car for year around use.
In my Finnish extended family we have two of those, both under my spouse’s name, and they are used for example by the family youth to get to their summer jobs. When not in use, the cars are taken off insurance. But that means that my 2 person household has 5 cars under our names: My car, the spouse’s car, the ghost car and the two beaters that are in wider family use during the summer.
ETA: Is the statistic actually listing cars or motorized vehicles? Because if it also counts motorcycles, tractors, scooters and ATVs then the number isn’t at all surprising. I would have to add two more vehicles to our number then.
1) long distances
2) two working adults in a household (sahm not that common due to taxes)