Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Belgium

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Belgium was 513 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is unchanged from 2024. That is the 19th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

2025, per 1,000 inhabitants513 Provisional

Change on 20240 pts

Rank19th of 27EU countries ranked

Series high5132024

Series low3871990

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Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Belgium, 1990 to 2025

per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: Eurostat, Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab). Retrieved 2026-10-18, published 2026-10-06.

All 36 values

Period	per 1,000 inhabitants
2025	513 Provisional
2024	513
2023	512
2022	507
2021	510
2020	510
2019	510
2018	511
2017	509
2016	505
2015	501
2014	497
2013	492 Series break
2012	489
2011	488 Series break
2010	480 Series break
2009	479
2008	477
2007	473
2006	470
2005	468
2004	467
2003	464
2002	462
2001	460
2000	456
1999	448
1998	440
1997	433
1996	427
1995	421
1994	416
1993	407
1992	399
1991	396
1990	387

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2025
Belgium	513
European Union (27)	584

Belgium compared with nearby places

Under 500
500 to 540
540 to 590
590 to 630
630 and over

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, 2025, per 1,000 inhabitants. Belgium is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: Eurostat, European Commission. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Rankings

EU countries by passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants 27 places

Definition

Passenger cars on the national vehicle register at the end of the year, per 1,000 people living in the country. A passenger car is a motor vehicle built mainly to carry people, with at most nine seats including the driver.

Calculated by Eurostat from the car stock that national registers report and the population. Registers differ in how they remove scrapped or exported cars, so some countries count cars that are no longer on the road, and a register update can move the rate sharply in one year (Lithuania went from 614 in 2013 to 412 in 2014). The EU figure starts in 2000 and is published for some years only.

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Eurostat. Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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APA 7

Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab) (Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Belgium, 1990 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table

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Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab), Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Belgium, 1990 to 2025. Eurostat, European Commission, 6 Oct. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/passenger-cars-per-1000-inhabitants/belgium. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab). Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Belgium, 1990 to 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/passenger-cars-per-1000-inhabitants/belgium.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab), Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Belgium, 1990 to 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/passenger-cars-per-1000-inhabitants/belgium (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{eurostat_passenger_cars_per_1_2025,
  author = {{Eurostat, European Commission}},
  title = {{Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road\_eqs\_carhab): Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Belgium, 1990 to 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table},
  urldate = {2026-10-18},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/passenger-cars-per-1000-inhabitants/belgium. Publisher attribution: Eurostat. Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road\_eqs\_carhab). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road\_eqs\_carhab/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.},
}

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513 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2024, the highest value since 1990 in this series.

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