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Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces

Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces 2003
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
A1 4,367 546 190 338 5,441 17,160 31.7
A 10,147 1,804 664 1,395 14,010 82,749 16.9
B 64,651 10,865 5,626 10,145 91,287 664,720 13.7
BTP 2,065 313 175 531 3,084 21,132 14.6
C1 687 237 75 133 1,132 11,660 9.7
C 4,634 1,275 838 1,050 7,797 61,544 12.7
D1 8 40 9 1 58 287 20.2
D 995 260 183 174 1,612 12,755 12.6
E 3,504 1,447 556 857 6,364 51,026 12.5
Total 91,058 16,787 8,316 14,624 130,785 923,033 14.2
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Notes:
See definitions.
Driving licence A: The 1999-2008 series includes light quadricycles.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". 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 "..".