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Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces

Driving licenses issued. By classes. Provinces 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
AM 3,853 1,220 290 780 6,143 31,761 19.3
A1 1,966 439 129 239 2,773 9,256 30.0
A2 8,640 944 356 948 10,888 61,747 17.6
A 1,783 197 46 201 2,227 9,432 23.6
B 60,246 9,096 5,360 9,702 84,404 568,060 14.9
BTP 4,311 427 192 554 5,484 36,093 15.2
C1 263 32 9 65 369 4,798 7.7
C 3,197 822 592 931 5,542 49,548 11.2
D1 21 23 2 3 49 284 17.3
D 1,889 285 146 297 2,617 16,234 16.1
E 2,634 630 331 728 4,323 36,687 11.8
Total 88,803 14,115 7,453 14,448 124,819 823,900 15.1
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: See definitions.

Last update: June 15, 2011.

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.

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 "..".