Saturday, April 30, 2016

Vehicle ownership in Sri Lanka.

Every third person owns a vehicle in Sri Lanka
March 23, 2016, Island by Dasun Edirisinghe
Nearly one in every three persons owns a vehicle in Sri Lanka, according to a recent survey, Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva says. The minister said the country had 6.3 million vehicles at present for a population of 21 million. The minister was addressing a seminar in Badulla organised to educate driving instructors of Moneragala, Badulla, Ampara and Ratnapura Districts on Monday

Vehicle Ownership

      
 According to Wikipedia the motor vehicle ownership rate for Sri Lanka in 2012 was 76 per 1000 persons. If the Minister's figure of 1 in 3 is correct it should be 333 per 1000 persons. So the question arises if the Minister included bicycles and bullock carts also in his calculation !

       Some comparative figures for motor vehicle ownership per 1000 persons are as follows:
US      
809
Australia
731
Japan
580
UK
519
UAR
313
Thailand
206
Singapore
129
China
128
Sri Lanka
76
India
18 


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