Car ownership in Greece
Greece had 597 passenger cars per 1,000 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1990.
The latest value carries the source flag “Source flag ep”.
Greece, 2025
597ep (Source flag ep)
Change from 2024
+16per 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
11th of 39
Car ownership in Greece 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 | Greece | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 597 per 1,000 peopleep (estimated, provisional) | 584 per 1,000 people |
| 2024 | 581 per 1,000 people | 577 per 1,000 people |
| 2023 | 566 per 1,000 people | 570 per 1,000 people |
| 2022 | 550 per 1,000 people | 564 per 1,000 people |
| 2021 | 536 per 1,000 people | 561 per 1,000 people |
| 2020 | 520 per 1,000 people | 556 per 1,000 people |
| 2019 | 509 per 1,000 people | 548 per 1,000 people |
| 2018 | 497 per 1,000 people | 539 per 1,000 people |
| 2017 | 491 per 1,000 people | 530 per 1,000 people |
| 2016 | 482 per 1,000 people | 518 per 1,000 people |
| 2015 | 476 per 1,000 people | 508 per 1,000 people |
| 2014 | 472 per 1,000 people | 506 per 1,000 people |
| 2013 | 470 per 1,000 people | 501 per 1,000 people |
| 2012 | 470 per 1,000 people | 497 per 1,000 people |
| 2011 | 469 per 1,000 people | 494 per 1,000 people |
| 2010 | 469 per 1,000 people | 487 per 1,000 people |
| 2009 | 462 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2008 | 453 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2007 | 434 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2006 | 412 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2005 | 391 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2004 | 371 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2003 | 351 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2002 | 334 per 1,000 people | – |
| 2001 | 314 per 1,000 people | – |
Flags: ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +16 from 581 per 1,000 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 476 per 1,000 people, the figure has changed by +121.
- Among the 39 countries with data for 2025, Greece has the 11th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 584 per 1,000 people.
More for Greece
All statistics for Greece
Car share of passenger transport
84.1%e (Estimated)
2024 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
6.4 per 100,000 people
2024 · Eurostat
Rail passenger transport
718 million passenger-km
2025 · Eurostat
Road share of inland freight transport
98.7%
2024 · Eurostat
New zero-emission cars
6.2%
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
8.3 per 100,000 people
2019 · World Bank