Private buyers' share of car registrations by country
Share of passenger-car registrations to private persons, each market's latest period
Who registers the cars, where the source says so, for the latest period. A private buyer is a natural person; everything else, leasing companies and dealers' own registrations included, is a company. The last column says whether the share is of new cars or of all the registrations the market counts.
| Market | Latest period | Private buyers | Private share is of |
|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark | September 2026 | 68.1% | New cars |
| ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania | September 2026 | 65.9% | New cars and used imports |
| ๐ฑ๐ป Latvia | September 2026 | 64.0% | New cars and used imports |
| ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia | August 2026 | 62.0% | New cars |
| ๐ฎ๐น Italy | September 2026 | 55.9% | New cars |
| ๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg | September 2026 | 46.8% | New cars |
| ๐ธ๐ช Sweden | September 2026 | 41.8% | New cars |
| ๐ท๐ด Romania | September 2026 | 40.9% | New cars |
| ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | September 2026 | 40.3% | New cars |
| ๐ง๐ช Belgium | December 2025 | 35.3% | New cars |
| ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia | September 2026 | 24.6% | New cars |
| ๐ช๐ช Estonia | September 2026 | 9.1% | New cars |
What stands out
Private buyers take 68.1% of registrations in Denmark and 9.1% in Estonia, the two ends of the twelve markets that publish the figure. The other eleven markets publish no split by buyer.
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