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Registration of industrial vehicles. By origin

Registration of industrial vehicles. By origin Catalonia. 2020
Value Variation (%)
Total industrial vehicles 23,136 -29.3
Imports 19,013 -28.6
National production 4,122 -32.6
Sales to official bodies 1 -50.0
Total vehicles 205,415 -30.1
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
Registration of industrial vehicles. By origin Spain. 2020
Value Variation (%)
Total industrial vehicles 170,413 -22.6
Imports 145,180 -22.1
National production 25,218 -25.2
Sales to official bodies 15 114.3
Total vehicles 1,283,546 -28.4
Units: Number of vehicles.
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.

Last update: January 19, 2021. Revised series on January 26, 2024.

Methodological note

The registration of industrial vehicles is a traditional investment indicator that is closely linked the economic cycle in companies.

These statistics are drawn up using the provincial information for vehicle registration issued by the Directorate General of Traffic. The vehicles are classified in:

  • Lorries and vans: vehicles destined to the transport of goods (it is excluded the motorcycle of three wheels with weight not lower than 400 kg).
  • Buses: vehicles destined to the transport of travellers with more capacity than nine vacancies, included the driver. It is excluded from this concept the trolley bus: the vehicle connected to an electrical line that does not circulate through rails.
  • Private cars: four wheel vehicle destined to the transport of travellers with maximum capacity of nine people, included the driver.
  • Motorcycles: two wheel vehicle, with or without sidecar, understand it as the passenger compartment laterally to the motorcycle. Included also the cars for disabled people.
  • Industrial vehicles: vehicle capacitated to drag a semi-trailer, without taking into account the farming tractors.
  • Others: vehicles not included in the previous categories, excluded the farming ones. Before 1998, trucks were included in this category.

The annual data are definitive.