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.

Measure: Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants Unit: Cars per 1,000 inhabitants Data: 1990 to 2025 Source: Eurostat
The latest value carries the source flag “Source flag ep”.
Greece, 2025 597ep (Source flag ep) Cars per 1,000 inhabitants
Change from 2024 +16per 1,000 people 2024: 581 per 1,000 people
European Union, 2025 584 per 1,000 people Official aggregate
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025 571 per 1,000 people Middle value of 27 countries
Position in 2025 11th of 39 See the full ranking

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.

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants (cars per 1,000 inhabitants), 2001 to 2025
Period GreeceEuropean 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.

Source and dates

Original producer
Eurostat
Source
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Dataset or series code
road_eqs_carhab · dataset details · view at source
Selection
freq=A unit=NR
Observation period
1990 to 2025 for Greece
Provider update
6 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
Eurostat reuse policy (attribution)
Attribution
Source: Eurostat