World Road Statistics
IRF World Road Statistics is the only global compilation of road and vehicle statistics. It is based on data compiled from official sources within national statistics offices and national road administrations in more than 185 countries. It also benefits from increased IRF cooperation with international institutions such as Eurostat and Afristat, and the UN Economic Commissions for Europe and for Africa.
Since it first appeared in 1958, World Road Statistics has been an indispensable reference tool for road professionals, statisticians, economists, journalists and development specialists around the world.
It is used by such agencies as the United Nations Development Program, The World Bank and the CIA for their own publications: for example, the World Bank uses World Road Statistics to prepare a part of its own publication World Development Indicators.
Chapters included in this year’s edition are:
- road networks (km)
- production & export of motor vehicles
- first registration & import of motor vehicles
- vehicles in use
- road traffic
- multimodal traffic comparisons
- motor fuels
- road accidents
- rates & basis of assessment of road user taxes
- examples of taxation for five common categories of motor vehicles
- annual receipts from road user taxation
- road expenditure
