How many motorcycles are there in the world?

Feb 24, 2023

Tags:general1travel

The story: we are pitching to investors, and we are trying to size the market.

How many motorcycles are there?

The correct answer: about 600 million.

For comparison, there are about 1.4 billion cars.

Our Google searches yielded mediocre results. The top result said 300 million, even though reliable government organizations peg the number of motorcycles in India alone at 200 million. So we went one by one, and compiled all the best statistics as of 2022 on the number of motorcycles out there.

If you find better sources/data for any country, please email us and we will update the table.

Here is the full list: