Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Germany

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Germany was 593 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 3 pts from 2024. That is the 11th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

2025, per 1,000 inhabitants593

Change on 2024+3 pts

Rank11th of 27EU countries ranked

Series high5932025

Series low3851990

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Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Germany, 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	593
2024	590
2023	588
2022	587 Series break
2021	583
2020	580
2019	574
2018	567
2017	561
2016	555
2015	548
2014	547
2013	543
2012	539
2011	534
2010	527 Series break
2009	510
2008	504
2007	501 Series break
2006	566
2005	559
2004	550
2003	546
2002	541
2001	538
2000	532 Series break
1999	515
1998	508
1997	504
1996	500
1995	494
1994	488
1993	477
1992	445
1991	390
1990	385

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2025
Germany	593
European Union (27)	584

Germany 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. Germany 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, Germany, 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, Germany, 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/germany. 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, Germany, 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/germany.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab), Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Germany, 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/germany (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, Germany, 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/germany. 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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593 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, the highest value since 1990 in this series.

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