More than two hundred times the amount of cars in the Netherlands, in 1927,

over The past century, the number of passenger cars in the Netherlands has increased from 41.000, in 1927, to about 8.5 million this year, according to a Thursday analysis by the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS).

in the late fifties, for example, take the sales in the Netherlands are in a race. Between 1960 and 1965, doubled the fleet of vehicles, even in size, to more than a million cars. The urban area and the forensenverkeer as a result, be identified as the cause of the growing fleet of vehicles.

Only twice in the period of growth is interrupted. First of all, in the 1970s and again in 1974. Causes that give statistics, but it is quite possible that, in 1970, the government of The Young set, loonpauze, and the oil crisis of 1973, has a role to play.

in the Meantime there are 494 cars per one thousand inhabitants, which is nearly one vehicle out of every two residents. In 1950, there were twelve for each thousand of population.