Car registrations per inhabitant by country
Passenger-car registrations per 1,000 inhabitants, each market's latest twelve months
The size of a car market says little until it is set against the number of people who live there. The table divides each market's registrations of the last twelve months by the country's population on 1 January of the year the window ends in. The new-car column is the comparable one and the table is sorted by it.
| Market | Period | Registrations | Per 1,000 inhabitants | New cars per 1,000 inhabitants | Registrations count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 68 782 | 99.5 | 70.1 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 2 969 041 | 35.6 | 35.6 | New cars |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 | 1 142 060 | 96.1 | 35.1 | New cars and used cars |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1 118 062 | 121.3 | 33.7 | New cars and used cars |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 203 187 | 33.7 | 33.7 | New cars |
| 🇸🇮 Slovenia | Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 | 64 318 | 30.1 | 30.1 | New cars |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1 626 484 | 27.6 | 27.6 | New cars |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 280 757 | 26.5 | 26.5 | New cars |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 238 347 | 26.1 | 26.1 | New cars |
| 🇫🇷 France | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1 710 970 | 24.8 | 24.8 | New cars |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1 373 433 | 27.7 | 24.4 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇨🇿 Czechia | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 411 033 | 37.7 | 23.2 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇮🇪 Ireland | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 215 570 | 39.1 | 23.0 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 373 740 | 32.7 | 21.2 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 718 479 | 39.6 | 21.1 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1 466 393 | 40.4 | 17.7 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇱🇹 Lithuania | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 172 831 | 59.9 | 14.9 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇬🇷 Greece | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 228 095 | 22.0 | 14.1 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇪🇪 Estonia | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 36 092 | 26.5 | 13.6 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 113 157 | 20.0 | 13.2 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇱🇻 Latvia | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 65 967 | 35.8 | 12.2 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇷🇴 Romania | Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 495 444 | 26.0 | 7.6 | New cars and used imports |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Q3 2025 – Q2 2026 | 2 176 092 | 31.3 | – | New cars and used imports, not separated |
What stands out
Measured on new cars, Luxembourg registers the most for its size, 70.1 new cars per 1,000 inhabitants in a year, and Romania the fewest, 7.6. Germany (35.6) and Belgium (35.1) follow the leader. Used imports change the order: in Lithuania they lift the figure from 14.9 new cars to 59.9 registrations per 1,000 inhabitants.
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