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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type Catalonia Value
Total vehicles Lorries and vans Buses Cars Motorcycles Industrial vehicles Others
2023 (p) 215,611 22,511 639 141,331 46,807 2,511 1,812
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
(p) Provisional data.
Registration of vehicles. By type Spain Value
Total vehicles Lorries and vans Buses Cars Motorcycles Industrial vehicles Others
2023 (p) 1,467,592 184,849 4,409 1,040,429 206,943 22,035 8,927
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
(p) Provisional data.

Last update: January 15, 2024. Revised series on January 26, 2024.

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.