road_eqs_carmot · 2000–2024
Passenger cars, by type of motor energy and size of engine
Eurostat road_eqs_carmot — Passenger cars, by type of motor energy and size of engine. Data range: 1970 to 2024.
At a glance
In 2024, the EU-27 figure for passenger cars, by type of motor energy and size of engine was 260,195,837 .
That is a 1.5% rose versus 2023 (256,229,781).
Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 6.3% higher.
Across member states, Germany reported the highest value (49,339,166, 2024) and Malta the lowest (330,484, 2024) — a ratio of 149.3× between the two ends of the range.
The figures below come from Eurostat dataset road_eqs_carmot; every value links back to the canonical source.
EU-27 · 2024
260,195,837
HIGHEST · 2024
Germany
49,339,166
LOWEST · 2024
Malta
330,484
Map · 2024
330.5k 49.3M
Ranking · 2024
Time series · top 12 countries + EU-27
- Germany 49.3M
- Italy 41.3M
- France 39.7M
- Spain 26.7M
- Poland 23.0M
- Netherlands 9.2M
- Romania 8.4M
- Czechia 6.6M
- Portugal 6.1M
- Belgium 6.1M
- Greece 6.0M
- Austria 5.2M
- European Union (27) 260.2M
Country × year heatmap · all values
43.7k 49.3M
Member states · ranked by latest value
- #1 Germany DE · 2024 49,339,166
- #2 Italy IT · 2024 41,340,516
- #3 France FR · 2024 39,738,933
- #4 Spain ES · 2024 26,700,972
- #5 Poland PL · 2024 22,951,213
- #6 Netherlands NL · 2024 9,247,810
- #7 Romania RO · 2024 8,449,781
- #8 Czechia CZ · 2024 6,638,172
- #9 Portugal PT · 2024 6,135,517
- #10 Belgium BE · 2024 6,099,089
- #11 Greece EL · 2024 6,027,946
- #12 Austria AT · 2024 5,231,893
- #13 Sweden SE · 2024 4,976,987
- #14 Hungary HU · 2024 4,263,067
- #15 Finland FI · 2024 3,755,842
- #16 Bulgaria BG · 2024 3,116,742
- #17 Denmark DK · 2024 2,864,904
- #18 Slovakia SK · 2024 2,722,491
- #19 Ireland IE · 2024 2,534,636
- #20 Croatia HR · 2024 1,987,156
- #21 Lithuania LT · 2024 1,729,713
- #22 Slovenia SI · 2024 1,250,508
- #23 Estonia EE · 2024 869,666
- #24 Latvia LV · 2024 788,075
- #25 Cyprus CY · 2024 647,327
- #26 Luxembourg LU · 2024 457,231
- #27 Malta MT · 2024 330,484
By year
- 2024
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Source:
Eurostat · road_eqs_carmot