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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type Catalonia. 2025
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 269,139 14.8
Lorries and vans 22,033 -5.0
Buses 674 2.0
Cars 182,093 18.3
Motorcycles 56,686 10.5
Industrial vehicles 4,369 42.0
Others 3,284 48.4
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Idescat, based on the DGT.
Registration of vehicles. By type Spain. 2025
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 1,832,075 14.3
Lorries and vans 187,176 -5.9
Buses 4,821 0.9
Cars 1,315,932 16.3
Motorcycles 260,764 12.6
Industrial vehicles 40,136 61.7
Others 23,246 104.0
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Idescat, based on the DGT.

Last update: January 21, 2026.

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.