Car ownership in France
France had 578 passenger cars per 1,000 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1990. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
The latest value carries the source flag “Source flag ip”.
France, 2025
578ip (Source flag ip)
Change from 2024
+1per 1,000 people
European Union, 2025
584 per 1,000 people
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025
571 per 1,000 people
Position in 2025
14th of 39
Car ownership in France over time
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Cars per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | France | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 578 per 1,000 peopleip (value imputed by Eurostat or other receiving agencies, provisional) | 584 per 1,000 people |
| 2024 | 577 per 1,000 peoplep (provisional) | 577 per 1,000 people |
| 2023 | 573 per 1,000 peoplep (provisional) | 570 per 1,000 people |
| 2022 | 569 per 1,000 people | 564 per 1,000 people |
| 2021 | 570 per 1,000 people | 561 per 1,000 people |
| 2020 | 568 per 1,000 people | 556 per 1,000 people |
| 2019 | 569 per 1,000 people | 548 per 1,000 people |
| 2018 | 568 per 1,000 people | 539 per 1,000 people |
| 2017 | 569 per 1,000 people | 530 per 1,000 people |
| 2016 | 564 per 1,000 people | 518 per 1,000 people |
| 2015 | 558 per 1,000 people | 508 per 1,000 people |
| 2014 | 551 per 1,000 people | 506 per 1,000 people |
| 2013 | 546 per 1,000 peopleb (break in time series) | 501 per 1,000 people |
| 2012 | 542 per 1,000 people | 497 per 1,000 people |
| 2011 | 540 per 1,000 peopleb (break in time series) | 494 per 1,000 people |
| 2010 | 538 per 1,000 peopleb (break in time series) | 487 per 1,000 people |
| 2009 | 486 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2007 | 480 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2006 | 478 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2005 | 476 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2004 | 476 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2003 | 475 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2002 | 471 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2001 | 467 per 1,000 people | – |
Flags: b break in time series; p provisional; ip value imputed by Eurostat or other receiving agencies, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +1 from 577 per 1,000 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 558 per 1,000 people, the figure has changed by +20.
- Among the 39 countries with data for 2025, France has the 14th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 584 per 1,000 people.
More for France
All statistics for France
Car share of passenger transport
82.6%
2024 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
4.6p (Provisional) per 100,000 people
2024 · Eurostat
Rail passenger transport
110,618 million passenger-km
2025 · 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