I need help with Vehicle numbers

I'm doing a spreadsheet comparing the population of Australia with the Road Toll and I'd like to know if anyone has found a source for the number of vehicles on the road per year for the period 1950 to 2025.
Additionally it would be nice to know how many K's or miles were driven on average per year.

Either my Googling ability has departed me or the figures aren't out there.

I know some of you guys are amazing in what you can dig up, so any help would be gratefully appreciated.

I have all those figures going back to 1926 year on year. I will look for them.

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The thing to take out of this is the amazing plunge from the introduction of seat belts and breath testing.

The most important thing on current figures is we have reached the statistically lowest road toll possible with the various human and natural factors. Politicians are idiots claiming their aim is zero fatalities. More and more road laws are about money collecting while doing little to change the figures. The most disturbing new factor is the growing drug use involved in fatal accidents. Some months in recent years drugs exceed alcohol as a major cause of accidents.

In over 90% of accidents human error is the main factor - not driving to the road or weather conditions, fatigue, drink/drugs, distracted (phone, kids. dogs etc) or just not concentrating. All the high profile things like speeding and dangerous driving are human error. Vehicle failure as the prime cause of accidents is almost statistically insignificant and in most of these cases the driver was aware before the accident of bald tyres, failing brakes or dodgy steering, once again human error.

About 30% of these road fatalities are motor bikes, pedal bikes and pedestrians

Was it 1968 when HK Holden arrived? Telescopic steering column, seatbelts & maybe even crumple zones.
GMH wanted to display a wreck that had been wrapped around a tree or such at Sydney Motor Show. Driver walked away - allegedly. “Authorities” wouldn’t allow it. Deemed too gruesome
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introduction of air bags, then side airbags are another factor showing up in those stats.

This has everything you want to know about Australian vehicle statistics.

www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/touri...ralia/latest-release


This is a quick look.

• 19,768,518 estimated number of vehicles
• 238,499 million kilometres travelled, an average of 12.1 thousand kilometres per vehicle
• 33,019 megalitres of fuel consumed (33,019,000,000 litres!)
• 223,949 million tonne-kilometres of freight moved

12,000km per year for the average vehicle (including trucks which would knock the car average down from that figure) is much less than the claimed distances Australians like to boast about. American drivers cover nearly double Australian averages. I have just been looking at buying Bev another car and the average mileages on the clock of my 5-10 year old purchase range seem to verify the above figures.

Thank you Gents for your input.

There are some interesting bumps in the chart that can be attributed to safety introductions and RBT.

The current toll per 100,000 population hasn't changed much in the last 5 years, it's just the population has increased dramatically so the Road Toll must follow. Interestingly the population increase each year remains about the same at roughly 1.1 to 1.2 percent per year. Of course 1.1% of 8,000,000 is very different to 1.1% of 27,000,000.

Lang is 100% right in the stupidity of chasing a zero toll. People will still die when a vehicle is doing 5kmh.

A few years back I was crushed between two vehicles. One was parked and the other moving at perhaps 2-3kmh. Next morning the doctor told me I was supposed to be dead. 3 month's in bed for a fractured Pelvis and tailbone.

I want the figures for personal satisfaction as I don't believe we are in a road toll crisis.

Just looking at the fuel used in Australia and all is not as dramatic as it seems. A couple of big tankers a week will more than cater for Australia's needs. Tankers hold between 200 and 500 million litres.