Sweden had the largest number of bike sharing users in 2023. That year, nearly half a million people used bike sharing services in the country. Finland, the Nordic country with the second-highest number of users, recorded fewer than half the users of Sweden.
Number of bicycle sharing users in the Nordics in 2023, by country
(in thousands)
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The Bike-sharing market includes short-term bike-sharing services. In bike-sharing services, bicycles are generally owned by a bike-sharing provider and are independently reserved by customers around the clock. Customers are required to open an account with the bike-sharing provider and can then reserve bicycles. This is usually done with a smartphone app, but there are also service providers that allow reservations to be made via the provider's website, by telephone, or at a terminal. The two most frequently used bike-sharing varieties are the following: station-based (e.g., Stadtrad and Citi Bike New York) and free-floating (such as nextbike and ofo). With station-based bike-sharing, a bicycle is retrieved from a bike-sharing station and returned to either the same station or dropped off at another station. With free-floating bike-sharing, it is possible to find bicycles everywhere within the service provider's business zone and leave the bicycle anywhere in accordance with traffic regulations. Peer-to-peer bike-sharing is not included in the market definition of this market. Moped-sharing services are not available in all countries; thus, only a limited number of countries and regions can be selected. Additional Information: The main performance indicators of the Bike-sharing market are revenues, average revenue per user (ARPU), user numbers and user penetration rates. Additionally, online and offline sales channel shares display the distribution of online and offline bookings. The ARPU refers to the average revenue one user generates per year while the revenue represents the total booking volume. Revenues are generated through both online and offline sales channels and include exclusively B2C revenues and users for the mentioned market. User numbers show only those individuals who have made a reservation, independent of the number of travelers on the booking. Each user is only counted once per year. The booking volume includes all booked rides made by users from the selected region, regardless of where the ride took place.
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Statista. (July 1, 2024). Number of bicycle sharing users in the Nordics in 2023, by country (in thousands) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1489224/bike-sharing-market-users-nordics-by-country/
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