Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Romania

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Romania was 461 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 17 pts from 2024. That is the 25th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

2025, per 1,000 inhabitants461 Estimated

Change on 2024+17 pts

Rank25th of 27EU countries ranked

Series high4612025

Series low541990

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Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants in Romania, 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	461 Estimated
2024	444 Estimated
2023	425 Estimated
2022	413 Estimated
2021	400 Estimated
2020	379
2019	357 Estimated
2018	332
2017	307
2016	279
2015	261
2014	247 Estimated
2013	235 Estimated
2012	224
2011	216
2010	214
2009	209
2008	197
2007	172
2006	152
2005	158
2004	151
2002	137
2001	148
2000	139
1999	133
1998	125
1997	116
1996	106
1995	97
1994	89
1993	79
1992	70
1991	63
1990	54

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2025
Romania	461
European Union (27)	584

Romania 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. Romania 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, Romania, 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, Romania, 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/romania. 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, Romania, 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/romania.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Passenger cars per thousand inhabitants (road_eqs_carhab), Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, Romania, 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/romania (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, Romania, 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/romania. 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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461 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025, the highest value since 1990 in this series.

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