Car share of passenger transport in France
Cars accounted for 82.6% of inland passenger transport in France in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest since 2012. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
France, 2024
82.6%
Change from 2023
−1.2percentage points
European Union, 2024
82.5%be (Source flag be)
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2024
82.6%
Position in 2024
20th of 34
Car share of passenger transport in France over time
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% of inland passenger-kilometres. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
Flags: be break in time series, estimated; e estimated; b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of −1.2 percentage points from 83.8% in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 84.6%, the figure has changed by −2.0 percentage points.
- Among the 34 countries with data for 2024, France has the 20th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2024 was 82.5%.
More for France
All statistics for France
Car ownership
578ip (Source flag ip) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
Rail passenger transport
110,618 million passenger-km
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
4.6p (Provisional) per 100,000 people
2024 · Eurostat
Road share of inland freight transport
88.3%
2024 · Eurostat
New zero-emission cars
19.6%
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
5.1 per 100,000 people
2019 · World Bank