Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in France

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in France was 578 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 1 pts from 2024. That is the 12th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

2025, per 1,000 inhabitants578 Provisional

Change on 2024+1 pts

Rank12th of 27EU countries ranked

Series high5782025

Series low4041990

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Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in France, 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 35 values

Period	per 1,000 inhabitants
2025	578 Provisional
2024	577 Provisional
2023	573 Provisional
2022	569
2021	570
2020	568
2019	569
2018	568
2017	569
2016	564
2015	558
2014	551
2013	546 Series break
2012	542
2011	540 Series break
2010	538 Series break
2009	486
2007	480
2006	478
2005	476
2004	476
2003	475
2002	471
2001	467
2000	460
1999	454
1998	446
1997	435
1996	427
1995	422
1994	420
1993	413
1992	408
1991	406
1990	404

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2025
France	578
European Union (27)	584

France 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. France 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, France, 1990 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carhab/default/table

MLA 9

Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab), Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, France, 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/france. 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, France, 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/france.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab), Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, France, 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/france (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, France, 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/france. 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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578 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, the highest value since 1990 in this series.

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