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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type Catalonia. 2022 (p)
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 187,579 -4.5
Lorries and vans 17,894 -16.4
Buses 474 37.8
Cars 122,187 -5.0
Motorcycles 43,007 2.9
Industrial vehicles 2,214 6.6
Others 1,803 -20.3
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
(p) Provisional data.
Registration of vehicles. By type Spain. 2022 (p)
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 1,276,435 -3.7
Lorries and vans 147,680 -12.5
Buses 2,854 36.4
Cars 914,921 -4.1
Motorcycles 183,110 5.6
Industrial vehicles 19,026 9.6
Others 8,844 -14.7
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
(p) Provisional data.

Last update: January 25, 2023.

Monthly data

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.