New zero-emission cars in Denmark
Zero-emission cars made up 67.8% of new passenger cars registered in Denmark in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.
Denmark, 2025
67.8%
Change from 2024
+16.4percentage points
European Union, 2025
17.3%
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025
10.1%
Position in 2025
2nd of 39
New zero-emission cars in Denmark over time
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% of newly registered passenger cars. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Denmark | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.8% | 17.3% |
| 2024 | 51.3% | 13.5% |
| 2023 | 36.1% | 14.5% |
| 2022 | 20.6% | 12.1% |
| 2021 | 13.4% | 9.0% |
| 2020 | 7.2% | 5.3% |
| 2019 | 2.4% | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 0.3% | 0.7% |
| 2016 | 0.6% | 0.4% |
| 2015 | 0.6% | 0.4% |
| 2014 | 0.8% | 0.3% |
| 2013 | 0.3% | 0.2% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +16.4 percentage points from 51.3% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 0.6%, the figure has changed by +67.1 percentage points.
- Among the 39 countries with data for 2025, Denmark has the 2nd highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 17.3%.
More for Denmark
All statistics for Denmark
Car ownership
501 per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
Car share of passenger transport
83.1%
2024 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
2.4 per 100,000 people
2024 · Eurostat
Rail passenger transport
6,752 million passenger-km
2025 · Eurostat
Road share of inland freight transport
92.2%
2024 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
3.7 per 100,000 people
2019 · World Bank