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Countries that Don't Use the Metric System
Countries that Don't Use the Metric System: compare 25 countries on 1 metric.
Culture25 countries · 1 metricUpdated Mar 6, 2024Original page
12 sources
- Busting Myths about the Metric System - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- International System of Units - Wiki
- Countries That Don't Actually Use the Metric System - World Atlas
- Why America won’t go metric - CNN
- The United States and the Metric System - United States Metric Association
- Metrication in the United States - Wiki
- Liberia: Measurement System - Wiki
- Metrication - Wiki
- Myanmar to adopt the metric system - Eleven
- Metric in Myanmar—an update - Metric Views
- Metrication in Myanmar - Mizzima
- Going Metric - Metrication UK
Level of Metric Adoption
5 values across 25 entries
Data
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25 countries
Brazil | Complete, but retains a few non-metric units |
Canada | Partially complete, but stalled |
China | Almost complete |
Hong Kong | Almost complete |
Indonesia | Almost complete |
Ireland | Almost complete |
Jamaica | Partially complete |
Japan | Complete, but retains a few non-metric units |
Liberia | Partially complete |
Macau | Almost complete |
Malaysia | Almost complete |
Mexico | Complete, but retains a few non-metric units |
Myanmar | Partially complete |
North Korea | Partially complete, retains formal use of traditional units |
Peru | Almost complete |
Philippines | Almost complete |
Singapore | Almost complete |
South Korea | Complete, but retains a few non-metric units |
Sri Lanka | Almost complete |
Sweden | Complete, but retains a few non-metric units |
Taiwan | Almost complete |
Thailand | Almost complete |
Trinidad and Tobago | Partially complete, but stalled |
United Kingdom | Almost complete |
United States | Partially complete, but stalled |
Quick answers
- Where does this countries that don't use the metric system data come from?
- Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Busting Myths about the Metric System - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); International System of Units - Wiki; Countries That Don't Actually Use the Metric System - World Atlas; Why America won’t go metric - CNN.
























