The three charts compare the proportion of particular country’s international automotive trade ( trucks, motorbikes, cars) over the three decades from 1996 to 2016.
Overall, despite experiencing the constant decline cargo vehicles represented the largest figures throughout the years, while the reverse pattern was true for cars. Additionally, motorbikes consigment also showed the gradual increase; however, remained at the lowest end of the spectrum.
Focusing on the datas in 1996, heavy-duty trade was the dominant with 64%, in comparison with only 26% and 20% in motorbikes and private vehicles respectively. By 2006, the figures for the lorries exhibited significantly to 56%, while the disparity between motorcycles and automobiles narrwowed down, the percentages ro the former grew to 19% the letter to 25%.
Turning to the last year, the shares of lorries sale reduced to 53%, whereas its counterpart two-wheelers rose to 22%. Lastely, cars was the bucked the trend, which’s statistics stayed static at 25%.
