Source: adapted from J. Kauppila, Ten stylized facts about household spending on transport, Statistical Paper 2010-3, September 2010, ITF Paris.

Transport Spending as Share of GDP, Selected Countries 2005

Transport spending represent a relatively constant share of the GDP among a sample of countries. Higher levels of GDP per capita tend to be related to higher levels of transport spending as well as higher levels of automobile ownership.

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