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Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces

Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces 2004
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
A1 3,700 514 224 374 4,812 15,117 31.8
A 28,726 6,330 3,267 5,157 43,480 188,065 23.1
B 82,425 14,602 8,205 13,750 118,982 768,579 15.5
BTP 2,829 405 223 425 3,882 23,999 16.2
C1 779 240 32 226 1,277 16,383 7.8
C 8,300 1,386 1,001 1,481 12,168 84,164 14.5
D1 22 127 2 19 170 518 32.8
D 1,129 286 198 274 1,887 14,808 12.7
E 5,923 1,675 634 1,289 9,521 71,323 13.3
Total 133,833 25,565 13,786 22,995 196,179 1,182,956 16.6
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 "..".