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Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces

Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces 2024
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
AM 3,779 1,282 549 747 6,357 41,907 15.2
A1 2,676 593 346 466 4,081 18,638 21.9
A2 9,970 1,054 672 1,152 12,848 69,650 18.4
A 8,516 1,008 706 1,088 11,318 74,602 15.2
B 68,715 9,494 7,322 9,458 94,989 605,762 15.7
BTP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
C1 216 36 33 29 314 4,117 7.6
C 2,072 493 958 510 4,033 31,744 12.7
D1 36 11 9 10 66 662 10.0
D 1,056 109 351 176 1,692 11,376 14.9
E 2,776 641 1,106 496 5,019 43,046 11.7
Total 99,812 14,721 12,052 14,132 140,717 901,504 15.6
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: See definitions in the methodological note.

Last update: November 10, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Driving licences

Documents that authorise people to drive a vehicle. They can be of the following types:

  • AM-Authorises driving of two or three wheeled moped and light four-wheeled vehicles.
  • A1-Authorises driving of mopeds of less than 125 cc.
  • A2- Authorises driving of motorbikes below 35 kW.
  • A-Authorises driving of motorcycles and tricycles.
  • B-Authorises driving of automobiles of a mass of no greater than 3,500 kg and in which the number of seats, including the driver's is no greater than nine. These vehicles can tow a trailer that weighs no more than 750 kg.
  • BTP- Only valid in national territory. Authorises driving of public service, for emergency services, school transport, estate cars of a maximum authorised weight of no more than 3,500 kg and in which the number of seats, including the driver's is no greater than nine.
  • C1-Authorises driving of trucks and estate cars of a weight greater than 3,500 kg, and below 7,500 kg. and in which the number of seats, including the driver's is no greater than nine.
  • C-Authorises driving of automobiles different to class D1 or D, of a weight greater than 3,500 kg. but whose number of seats, including the driver's, is no greater than nine.
  • D-Authorises driving of automobiles used for the transport of people, in which the number of seats, including that of the driver, is greater than nine. These automobiles may tow a trailer, the maximum authorised weight of which must be no greater than 750 kg.
  • D1-Authorises driving of automobiles used for the transport of people, the number of seats of which including that of the driver, no greater than seventeen of a length of less than nine metres. These automobiles may tow a trailer, the maximum authorised weight of which may be no greater than 750 kg.
  • E-Authorises driving of vehicles while towing non-light trailers. The trailer will be connected to the vehicles for which the corresponding class of driving licence allows.

Methodological aspects

Provisonal data.

As of 27 June 1997, the new General Regulations for Drivers (Royal Decree 772/97 of 30 May 1997) came into force, incorporating new driving licence categories in order to adapt to European regulations.

When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".