Car share of passenger transport in Germany
Cars accounted for 84.1% of inland passenger transport in Germany in 2024.
The latest value carries the source flag “Estimated”.
Germany, 2024
84.1%e (Estimated)
Change from 2023
+0.6percentage points
European Union, 2024
82.5%be (Source flag be)
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2024
82.6%
Position in 2024
12th of 34
Car share of passenger transport in Germany 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: e estimated; b break in time series; be break in time series, estimated . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.6 percentage points from 83.5% in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 84.5%, the figure has changed by −0.4 percentage points.
- Among the 34 countries with data for 2024, Germany has the 12th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2024 was 82.5%.
More for Germany
All statistics for Germany
Car ownership
593 per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
Rail passenger transport
111,764 million passenger-km
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
3.3 per 100,000 people
2024 · Eurostat
Road share of inland freight transport
72.7%
2024 · Eurostat
New zero-emission cars
19.1%
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
3.8 per 100,000 people
2019 · World Bank