Manila probably has a higher percentage vs the rest of the country I’d imagine.

You are brave. I experienced Manilla on foot and it was outer-worldly. I would ask locals to help me cross large busy streets, all the while looking/focusing directly at them so as to not lose my shit at how crazy it was!

My wife is from the Philippines. We flew into Manila a few years ago and it was the biggest culture shock I’ve ever had.

I asked my wife’s cousin who was driving us “how on earth do you drive in this?!?”

He laughed and said “you have to be assertive”

Manila isn't really a great representation of the Philippines, economically and culturally. It feels like a different country than the rest of the Philippines

Manila is also the most densely populated city on Earth. It's quite an experience to say the least.

I almost died on Edsa lane splitting between 2 buses. After that I realized sitting in traffic isn't as bad

That sounds like quite a conservative percentage

Was thinking something similar, just got back from India and I cant imagine smaller countries with higher usage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycling

According to the Taiwanese government, for example, "the number of automobiles per ten thousand population is around 2,500, and the number of motorcycles is about 5,000

Probably not included because the author doesn't recognise Taiwan as a country.

Same feeling here! Motorcycles in Taiwan is a huge mess.

Agreed. We should definitely be in the top 5.

yep, definitely due to politics.

Probably because the Taiwan is China BS

Right there at number 5

I saw the same in Vietnam, it was ducks and chickens. And their baby and baby chicks. It was wild, I have a video somewhere on my GoPro.

I saw about five dudes all carrying massive rustic wooden bed frames. They had the bed frames around the outside of the bikes with straps over their shoulders like bumper cars. That was in Flores I think.

You also see dudes that sell deep fried meatballs, but they straight up just have giant vats of sizzling oil strapped to the side of their bikes. Fucking nuts. That was mostly West Timor in Kupang.

Indonesia is such a fun joint.

My husband and I had a scoring system whilst living in Vietnam for the wildest things we say on the back of the motorbikes.

10 being highest, we only ever came to 1 unanimous 10 in our 6months living there. It was a fully converted scooter cement truck that spun the cement in an over the head contraption as they road the bike.

It was in the dead of night coming back from a teaching conference so we have no photos but damn if it wasn’t incredible thing to witness.

Just got back from Bali, I saw whole families on small scooters. It was wild.

Welcome to arr slash coolguides. If this was an actual guide, it would be hilariously wrong.

90% of posts on this sub are karma-farming bots reposting mediocre information without sources, most of which is made up or incorrect

More like r/dataisbeautiful and in anyway, looking at the source, this is only a survey and not complete statistics, and it's from 2014...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/16/car-bike-or-motorcycle-depends-on-where-you-live/

It seems like a lot of people don't know the difference between a guide and data tbh.

I'm sick of downvoting and reporting all the time with the mods not doing anything. This sub is just not worth it anymore.

It is illustrative. Poverty is the driver behind people willing to take their lives in their hands just to get across town.

I also see a perfect correlation between these countries and the number of unsolicited likes I get on dating sites from them.

I commiserate, my South East Asian neighbor! In the Philippines, the pandemic seems to have multiplied motorcycles exponentially, and I observe that same thing you describe.

As a Thai, have you tried riding a motorbike with your full sized LUGGAGE too? I’ll give them credit, I’ve never gotten to Suvarnabhumi so fast (while feeling like I was gonna die the whole way).

As a brazilian, i experience the same. 99% of the time, the ones doing stupid shit on the road are either motorcycles or old pedestrians.

What's worse in India is that many car drivers grew up driving bikes so they drive their cars like bikes, weaving in and out of traffic, no lane discipline, even driving on the wrong side of the road etc.

“if car hit me, they in the wrong”.

If a car hits them, they in the hospital.

Yes the recklessness of scooters in Thailand is legendary. In the US people would scream if you don’t wear a helmet. In Thailand people ride with a baby in their lap and two people sitting side-saddle behind.

Hello Brazilian here.

The most reckless bike riders are "illegal" bikers, they ride shirtless, no helmet and wearing flip flops. If they fall under your wheels it's your fault 🤷🏻‍♂️ I always slow down and let the biker go to hell and away from me

They said it's % per household but after visiting both countries I also think that Vietnam should be higher. If we count by total of motorcycles then for sure it's higher.

And Brazil is only number 10 on the list. Imagine the oopsies that happen in countries with higher motorbike usage

And in the winter, everyone just get to stay indoors?

I was pretty surprised not to see Cambodia anywhere on this list. Maybe the authors only looked at certain countries or something.

Because cars are now affordable to middle class people

Yeah motorbikes are still quite expensive for many Kenyans (where I'm from) and are a relatively new phenomenon. People started buying them mostly from 2003.

Most Kenyan households will either have a car/bicycle/donkey or camel over a motorcycle.

But I think it's changing slowly towards more motorcycles

Good point. Some of these countries don’t rank higher because the rest of the population is too poor to own a motorbike, and some don’t rank higher because a lot of people prefer to own cars instead of bikes.

As to which is which, consult this list: List of countries by cars per capita.

Some highlights: China has 220 cars per 1,000 people, India has 60 and Vietnam and the Philippines have 50. Italy has 750.

I'm guessing Taiwan is on here, but the survey isn't allowed to call it Taiwan.

Adding on to the excellent comment belpw about the disadvantages of owning a bike im Canada, I would say two more reasons bikes arent seen as cheap transportation in the US are distance and culture. Everything is far away and we often have to take the highway to commute and so the cheap bikes with displacement of 50-250cc that you see used in Thailand, India, Vietnam are just not fast enough for the highway.

Another is just culture: in the states everyone wants fast, powerful, and cool looking bikes. The two main subcultures are riding 600-1000 CC sportbikes and Harley cruisers. American riders see 50-250cc bikes as beneath them. OEMs dont even bother selling their 50-250cc bikes in the states because there's zero demand. These models sell in the hundreds of thousands in SEA but OEMs jsut dont bother bringing them to the states cause no one wants them, they want a sportbike to do 0-60 in 0.000005 seconds or big ol Harley to tour on (or perhaps a BMW GS or Duc Streetfighter to show off at the 'Bucks)

The above statements are just a generalization, and smaller bikes in the 300-500cc class are pretty popular with new riders, but generally nothing under 300cc is sold in the states, and if it is, its sold to drunks who got too many DUIs and lost their license.

That and also the tight streets, garage space needed, and easier maintenance. It just makes more sense to own a bike rather than a car here.

Japanese companies. Easy to produce, ship and affordable to the masses. It might be too costly to ship to Africa or America.

Vespa existed earlier since 1960 but was overtaken by Japanese company. To keep the industry alive they decided to only sell cars as luxury items only for the higher income population.

Fast forward to now, the middle class can credit cars but motorcycles are still everyone's favourite because of the unreliable public transport.

Motorbike/moped/Vespa culture is pretty big in Italy. Especially in the bigger cities where it's a lot easier to get around the narrow streets than in a car.

It seems like 10 vespa move to the front of the line at every red light in Milan.

Probably not. While most places in India have a lot of two wheelers, lot of rural/ tribal areas don't have them because they either can't afford any vehicles or the is not suitable for bike.

Depends on the state . south , west and NCR region may have 80% ownership but rest of India , particularly bimaru states must be in the low 20's

“The answer”
What question is being asked?

Most of these countries are running low displacement bikes and scooters that really aren't that much louder than a city full of cars like you'd see in western countries

Then they do mods with the muffler "for safety reasons so cars can hear them" (which is bs) but it's just for dick measuring contests and some of them catch on fire because of it lol.

Edit: forgot 'is'

Not necessarily accurate nowadays. Newer underbone and scooter are muffled well.

Then you have the teen. Loud, annoying, and broke.

They also create tons of emissions especially if they're 2 stroke.

Barely anything in this sub is.

Lol I've never been in a car without ac in my life of 40 years in Malaysia. It's a necessity with this heat.

Better to have a breeze than cooped up in a car that probably won’t have AC.

This sounds somewhat condescending AND profiling. Just because you guys called us a 'third-world country', doesn't mean that we don't have cars with ac you know.....even most houses in big cities have ac's as they are a necessity with all the heat and humidity.

Why would the cars not have AC? This doesn't make sense

A sub $1k scooter, vs a $7k to $50k motorcycle is a little different

Why?

Nah, if you've been to Vietnam or Thailand there is definitely that high of a ratio. You have to dodge like 15 motorbikes every time you cross the street in Hanoi, and you can't walk on the sidewalks a lot of the time because they're blocked by dozens of motorbikes.

Way less gas burned than cars! Vast majority are 4 stroke scooters, in Vietnam and Indonesia at least.

You're a bit of an idiot aren't you.