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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type. Provinces Catalonia
Cars Buses Motorcycles Trucks and vans Industrial tractors Others Total
2022 (p) 122,187 474 43,007 17,894 2,214 1,803 187,579
2021 128,611 344 41,790 21,411 2,076 2,261 196,493
2020 140,561 245 39,206 21,005 2,131 2,267 205,415
2019 212,163 735 45,835 30,774 1,957 2,457 293,921
2018 216,155 590 42,935 36,197 1,828 1,950 299,655
2017 207,182 527 37,978 31,925 2,186 1,520 281,318
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
(p) Provisional data.

Last update: January 31, 2023.

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.