The Netherlands
Population: 16,5 million
Bikes: 18 million
New bikes sold a year: 1.35 million
Bikes stolen a year: between 1.2 and 1.4 million
But the number of bikes in the Netherlands has been at that level, thus stable for years, so what explains this gap? According to the chairman of the Dutch Bicycle Union it boils down to this:
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