Latin American Economic Review

Table 6 Access to transportation in Latin America

From: Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities

	Area			Car					Motorcycle			Bicycle
	Mean	Urban	Rural	Income Quintile					Area			Area
	Mean	Urban	Rural	1	2	3	4	5	Urban	Rural	20 % Poorest	Urban	Rural	20 % Poorest
Latin America
Argentina
2001	38.7	38.7		17	22	32	40	57	10.9		9.2	55.4		57.6
Bolivia
2007	10.7	14	4.4	2.8	4.2	7	9.5	24	5.6	5.8	1.6	37	42.3	38.3
Chile
1998	28.1	29.9	16.9	6.6	12	19	33	60
Colombia
2007	12	14.5	3.7	2.4	2.8	4.3	8.3	33	12.8	10.1	4.4	35.3	29.1	23.2
Costa Rica
2009	36.8	40.9	30.7	14	19	28	42	70
Dominican Rep.
2009	19.6	24.5	9.6	4	7.6	12	17	48	21.6	29.4	20.9
Ecuador
2009	17.5	21.9	8.1	6.1	6	10	15	40	5.9	6.7	4.5	31.2	21.9	20.6
El Salvador
2008	16	20	7.5	1	4.1	7	14	45
Guatemala
2006	10.3	17.4	2.1	0.2	0.7	2.5	5.3	34	8.6	3.6	0.5	33.3	34.9	20.5
Honduras
2007	14.8	22.7	7.2	6	3.7	7.4	14	36	2.7	1	0.6	29.3	33.8	22
Mexico
2008	28.6	33.3	10.6	7.8	14	21	33	58	3.3	2.9	1.8	14	24.3	18.6
Nicaragua
2005	6.8	9.8	2.5	1.1	0.5	2.7	3.6	21	2.6	0.7	0.1	37.1	29.3	22.2
Panama
2003	26.6	33	12.9	5.4	8.7	17	27	55	0.5	1.2	0.2	26	28.4	16.8
Paraguay
2009	23.2	31	11.3	5.5	9.1	14	26	53	30.9	44.9	28.2
Peru
2009	9	12.3	2.7	0.7	2.2	4.4	9.1	24	4.4	3.7	1.8	32.5	24.4	20.7
Uruguay
2007	31.4	30.4	45.6	7.8	17	25	35	55
Venezuela
2006	22.4	22.4		7.4	11	15	23	44
The Caribbean
Bahamas
2001	72.5	72.5		49	62	75	80	89	1.3		0.8	25.7		19.4
Guyana
2004	5.9	7.4	5	0.8	2.4	2.6	2.9	16	2.5	1.7	0.8	34.1	33.3	25.8
Haiti
2001	3.2	6.7	0.9	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.5	10	1.2	0.8	0.5	11.7	12.7	7.6
Jamaica
2002	15.1	21.1	9.9	13	5.1	6.5	12	28	2	1.6	1.5	17.8	13.1	10.3

Source Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean, Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (Universidad Nacional de la Plata) and the World Bank

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