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Street-network walkability — share of people living within 1 km of a car-free street (OSM-based)

Name: Street-network walkability — share of people living within 1 km of a car-free street (OSM-based)
Creator: Meta (Facebook) Data for Good / Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), using OpenStreetMap
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, walkability, urbanism, transport, public-space, openstreetmap, accessibility, streets, pedestrian

Share of population living within 1 km of a car-free street, derived from OpenStreetMap road tags and gridded population for 2022.

Source: Meta (Facebook) Data for Good / Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), using OpenStreetMap•168 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

65.1%

Median: 68.2%

Countries Covered

168

with available data

Highest

Japan

99.1%

Lowest

Somalia

6.0%

Top 5 Countries

1Japan99.1%

2South Korea99.0%

3Singapore99.0%

4Netherlands98.6%

5United Kingdom98.5%

By Region

Europe96.3%(32 countries)

Oceania90.3%(2 countries)

Asia74.3%(25 countries)

North America71.8%(4 countries)

South America65.0%(7 countries)

Key Findings

•Highest values tend to occur in dense, highly mapped countries with extensive pedestrian networks (e.g., Japan, Singapore, Republic of Korea).
•Large, low-density or under-mapped countries often show lower shares even when pedestrian areas exist, reflecting mapping gaps.
•The indicator highlights differences in everyday proximity to pedestrian-only space, complementing traditional transport metrics focused on roads and vehicles.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.2%)High (99.1%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 65.1%)

Europe (32)

Oceania (2)

Asia (25)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Other (89)

Africa (9)

About This Statistic

This indicator estimates how many people live close to streets that are mapped as car-free (for example, pedestrian-only ways and paths tagged in OpenStreetMap). It is a proxy for everyday access to car-free public space and potentially safer, quieter, and more walkable environments.

Values are computed by overlaying (1) a global gridded population surface and (2) OpenStreetMap street geometries filtered to “car-free” tags (e.g., highway=pedestrian/footway/path and related access restrictions), then calculating the share of residents whose grid cell centroid falls within 1 km of any qualifying segment. Because OpenStreetMap completeness and tagging practices vary by country, this measure is best interpreted as a comparable, OSM-derived walkability proxy rather than an official transport statistic.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Japan	99.1%
2	South Korea	99.0%
3	Singapore	99.0%
4	Netherlands	98.6%
5	United Kingdom	98.5%
6	Germany	98.4%
7	Finland	98.2%
8	Qatar	98.2%
9	United Arab Emirates	98.1%
10	Belgium	98.1%
11	France	98.0%
12	Denmark	97.9%
13	Italy	97.9%
14	Switzerland	97.9%
15	Faroe Islands	97.8%
16	Sweden	97.8%
17	Kuwait	97.6%
18	Israel	97.4%
19	Norway	97.4%
20	Spain	97.3%
21	Austria	97.3%
22	Ireland	97.0%
23	State of Palestine	96.9%
24	Czech Republic	96.8%
25	Malta	96.8%
26	Luxembourg	96.7%
27	Fiji	96.6%
28	Estonia	96.5%
29	Iceland	96.4%
30	Portugal	96.4%
31	Cyprus	96.2%
32	Lithuania	96.2%
33	Mauritius	96.2%
34	Maldives	96.1%
35	Latvia	95.9%
36	Slovenia	95.8%
37	Poland	95.7%
38	Greece	95.5%
39	Bulgaria	95.2%
40	Slovakia	95.1%
41	Cape Verde	95.0%
42	North Korea	95.0%
43	Hungary	94.9%
44	Saudi Arabia	94.2%
45	Türkiye	93.7%
46	Oman	93.5%
47	Lebanon	93.1%
48	Trinidad and Tobago	92.9%
49	New Zealand	92.5%
50	Canada	92.2%
51	Romania	92.1%
52	Ukraine	92.0%
53	Croatia	91.9%
54	Serbia	91.2%
55	Barbados	91.0%
56	Dominica	90.5%
57	Montenegro	90.3%
58	Russian Federation	90.2%
59	United States of America	90.1%
60	Cayman Islands	89.7%
61	Australia	88.0%
62	Belarus	86.4%
63	Jordan	85.1%
64	Moldova, Republic of	84.5%
65	Libya	82.1%
66	Uruguay	81.0%
67	Greenland	80.9%
68	Tunisia	80.5%
69	Armenia	79.8%
70	Chile	79.3%
71	Georgia	78.8%
72	Mongolia	78.7%
73	Syrian Arab Republic	78.1%
74	Brunei Darussalam	77.3%
75	Malaysia	76.9%
76	Thailand	75.0%
77	Albania	73.4%
78	Kyrgyzstan	72.8%
79	Islamic Republic of Iran	70.9%
80	Suriname	70.6%
81	Brazil	70.6%
82	Kazakhstan	70.4%
83	Uzbekistan	69.7%
84	People's Republic of China	68.5%
85	Tajikistan	67.9%
86	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	66.8%
87	Botswana	66.4%
88	Egypt	66.1%
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.0%
90	Vietnam	63.8%
91	New Caledonia	63.6%
92	Venezuela	63.1%
93	Morocco	63.0%
94	Costa Rica	62.5%
95	Iraq	62.0%
96	Jamaica	61.6%
97	Argentina	61.2%
98	India	60.7%
99	Philippines	60.5%
100	Mexico	60.1%
101	South Africa	60.0%
102	Indonesia	59.9%
103	Panama	58.8%
104	Cuba	58.2%
105	Sri Lanka	57.8%
106	Nepal	55.7%
107	Colombia	55.3%
108	Pakistan	55.2%
109	Peru	55.0%
110	Dominican Republic	54.8%
111	Paraguay	54.1%
112	Ecuador	52.9%
113	Benin	52.2%
114	Republic of The Gambia	52.0%
115	Belize	49.9%
116	Solomon Islands	47.5%
117	Ghana	46.0%
118	Gabon	45.8%
119	Guatemala	44.8%
120	El Salvador	42.7%
121	Namibia	42.1%
122	Senegal	41.7%
123	Bangladesh	41.6%
124	Central African Republic	41.5%
125	Equatorial Guinea	40.6%
126	Cote d'Ivoire	39.8%
127	Honduras	39.4%
128	Liberia	39.4%
129	Afghanistan	38.7%
130	Cambodia	38.0%
131	Togo	37.5%
132	Nicaragua	34.9%
133	Mali	34.6%
134	Papua New Guinea	34.5%
135	Yemen	34.2%
136	Myanmar	33.9%
137	Nigeria	33.7%
138	Kenya	33.1%
139	Lao People's Democratic Republic	32.2%
140	Eswatini	32.2%
141	Sudan	31.1%
142	Haiti	29.9%
143	Guinea	29.6%
144	Algeria	29.5%
145	Madagascar	25.9%
146	Niger	22.8%
147	Cameroon	22.4%
148	Vanuatu	22.0%
149	Mauritania	21.3%
150	Uganda	20.5%
151	Sierra Leone	19.7%
152	Republic of the Congo	19.2%
153	Rwanda	18.9%
154	Lesotho	18.4%
155	Zambia	18.2%
156	Angola	18.1%
157	United Republic of Tanzania	17.7%
158	Ethiopia	17.0%
159	Zimbabwe	16.5%
160	Malawi	16.4%
161	Djibouti	16.3%
162	Mozambique	15.8%
163	Democratic Republic of the Congo	14.3%
164	Burundi	12.6%
165	Eritrea	11.3%
166	Chad	9.4%
167	South Sudan	7.8%
168	Somalia	6.0%

Showing 168 of 168 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #walkability #urbanism #transport #public-space #openstreetmap #accessibility #streets #pedestrian

Data Source

This data comes from Meta (Facebook) Data for Good / Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), using OpenStreetMap (2022).

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