The country with the highest pedal cyclist fatality rate is the Netherlands. Belgium and Denmark also have rates of over 1.0 per 100,000 population. Britain is one of just four countries in which the rate is less than 0.4. The other three are Spain, Greece and Austria. Children use their bicycles more than adults, but adults travel greater distances.
Males travel over twice as far on bicycles as females.
Almost half of adult pedal cycle journeys were made for work. Men make more more journeys a year than women, but the difference in distributions of those journeys is negligible amongst adults. Boys use their bikes nearly three times as often as girls. The way they use their bikes differs to girls, however. All children make more journeys for social reasons than for any other reasons, but proportionately, boys use their bicycles for work much more than girls.