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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type Catalonia. 2016
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 270,753 11.0
Lorries and vans 30,601 5.9
Buses 464 5.7
Cars 191,460 9.8
Motorcycles 44,882 19.7
Industrial vehicles 2,421 11.8
Others 925 36.2
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Registration of vehicles. By type Spain. 2016
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 1,589,876 12.2
Lorries and vans 170,041 6.3
Buses 3,760 27.3
Cars 1,230,104 12.4
Motorcycles 160,978 17.3
Industrial vehicles 20,858 4.3
Others 4,135 42.0
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.

Last update: January 16, 2017. Revised series on January 26, 2024.

Monthly data

Methodological note

This indicator is made using province-wide information on registrations of vehicles published by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). Vehicles are classified in the following categories:

  • Lorries and vans: Vehicles whose purpose is transport of goods (motorcycles with three wheels, weighing no less than 400 kg are excluded).
  • Buses: Vehicles whose purpose is transport of travellers with a capacity for more than nine persons, including the driver. Trolleybuses (vehicles connected to an electrical line that do not move around on rails) are excluded from this category.
  • Private cars: Four-wheeled vehicle whose purpose is transportation of travellers, with a maximum capacity of nine people, including the driver.
  • Motorcycle: Two-wheeled vehicles, with or without a sidecar the passenger compartment laterally attached to the motorcycle. Cars for disabled people are also included in this category.
  • Industrial tractors: Vehicles capable of dragging a semi-trailer, without taking farming tractors into account.
  • Others: Vehicles not included in the previous categories, excluding farming vehicles. Before 1998, trucks were included in this category.

The annual data are definitive.

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