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Registration of vehicles. By type

Registration of vehicles. By type Catalonia. 1997
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 251,549 20.6
Lorries and vans 42,319 23.6
Buses 448 7.7
Cars 192,629 18.7
Motorcycles 14,191 40.6
Industrial vehicles 1,962 35.2
Others .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Registration of vehicles. By type Spain. 1997
Value Variation (%)
Total vehicles 1,385,283 14.6
Lorries and vans 236,356 19.8
Buses 3,371 17.6
Cars 1,091,190 12.7
Motorcycles 41,872 34.1
Industrial vehicles 12,494 33.1
Others .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 30, 2009. Revised series on January 26, 2024.

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.