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Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces

Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
A1 2,333 544 183 283 3,343 10,838 30.8
A 11,374 2,292 816 1,663 16,145 106,118 15.2
B 73,737 14,273 8,222 13,542 109,774 828,949 13.2
BTP 4,612 681 254 681 6,228 44,855 13.9
C1 314 149 9 57 529 4,769 11.1
C 5,255 1,595 860 1,276 8,986 75,022 12.0
D1 7 66 1 1 75 366 20.5
D 1,414 298 144 181 2,037 15,694 13.0
E 3,226 1,460 582 884 6,152 47,350 13.0
Total 102,272 21,358 11,071 18,568 153,269 1,133,961 13.5
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 "..".