More bicycles than people
August 25, 2008 by Sueli
The Dutch statistics office reports that the number of bicycles sold last year rose by 80,000 to 1.4 million. Around 85 percent of the population owns a bicycle and there are now 18 million bicycles in the Netherlands, which has just over 16 million people.
Last year the Dutch cycled a total of 14.7 billion kilometres, 1.4 billion kilometres more than they did 15 years ago.
Source: Radio Netherlands, 25 August 2008
so many bicycles!