Where People Prefer Owning or Sharing a Bike

Bike owning or bike-sharing? Most people around the world agree that the former is still the most comfortable way to get around on two wheels and muscle power. Out of all online populations surveyed in the 50+ countries included in the Statista Consumer Insights, Poles were most likely to own a bike at 81 percent of them saying that their household had one at disposal. Urban Chinese are the exception to this rule, at 41 percent bike owners and 44 percent bike-sharing users - a testament to the bike-sharing boom in Chinese cities.

Only 9 percent of Polish internet users said that they used bike-sharing, in line with other European countries in the survey where bike ownership was still the way to go. Bike-sharing use was also high among Urban Indians, with 26 percent of respondents saying they used bike-sharing, while 56 percent also said their household had at least one bike for use.

In Japan, where mandatory helmet wearing became the law on Saturday, 55 percent of people said they owned a bike - a slightly higher share than among urban online populations in other Asian countries like South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand or Vietnam.