Passenger Cars per 1000 people
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Passenger cars it’s road motor transport, other than two-wheelers intended for the transportation of passengers and designed to seat no more than 9 humans. Therefore, the word “passenger car” includes vans, taxis, and hired passenger cars, provided that they have less than 10 seats.
Passenger Cars per 1000 people (2015)
In 2019, for the first time in history, over 80 million cars were manufactured in a single year.
In 2019, the total number of cars on the world’s roads was 1.5 billion. That means that there is more than one car for every five people living on earth.
However, there are vast differences in different countries of the world. In the United States, there are 343 passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants. On the contrary, there are only 17 cars per 1,000 inhabitants in India, and in Ethiopia and Sudan, only one vehicle per 1,000 inhabitants.
China has the largest fleet of passenger cars in the world, with 250 million vehicles in 2019. If China were to have as many cars per capita as Liechtenstein, its fleet alone would amount to approximately 1.1 billion cars.
Top 20 countries by passenger cars per 1,000 people (2019)
- Liechenstein – 782
- Luxembourg – 676
- Cypros – 633
- Finland – 629
- Malta – 623
- Poland – 610
- Germany – 568
- Estonia – 566
- Austria – 563
- Slovenia – 552
- Czechia – 540
- Norway – 518
- Spain – 515
- Portugal – 514
- Belgium – 513
- Lithuania – 511
- Sweden – 479
- France – 478
- Ireland – 449
- Slovakia – 426
New car sales decreased by 16% in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The highest number of sold passenger cars in 2020 was in China (20,177,731) passenger cars, and the lowest number was in Bulgaria – 22,368 passenger vehicles.
