Originally Posted by
NOS88
Netherlands: People: 16,652,800 - Bicycles: 16,500,000 - Cyclists: ~99.1%
China: People: 1,342,700,000 - Bicycles: >500,000,000 - Cyclists: >37.2%
USA: People: 310,936,000 - Bicycles: 100,000,000 - Cyclists: ~32,2%
Source:
http://top10hell.com/top-10-countrie...es-per-capita/
Most bicycle commuters in USA: Philadelphia - The US Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey recently reported that Philadelphia has the most bicycle commuters per capita of the nation’s most populated cities. Philadelphia’s bicycle commuters comprised 1.6% of all commuters who travel to work.
Source:
http://bikephl.bicyclecoalition.org/...commuters.html
I doubt the accuracy of the data. Don't know about every place. But in places I do know about there isn't any good methodology to have good data on number of cycles, let alone how many commute.
It only makes sense that there would be a higher proportion of Europeans, especially from the smaller countries, that commute on bikes than in the US. The US is a larger country than almost all of Europe put together and grew up with individual land ownership rather than aristocratic land ownership. Therefore, it is more spread out and commuting distances are usually greater than the 2.5K cited for the Netherlands.