Car share of passenger transport in Italy
Cars accounted for 83.3% of inland passenger transport in Italy in 2024.
Italy, 2024
83.3%
Change from 2023
+1.3percentage points
European Union, 2024
82.5%be (Source flag be)
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2024
82.6%
Position in 2024
15th of 34
Car share of passenger transport in Italy 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 +1.3 percentage points from 82.0% in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 80.8%, the figure has changed by +2.5 percentage points.
- Among the 34 countries with data for 2024, Italy has the 15th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2024 was 82.5%.
More for Italy
All statistics for Italy
Car ownership
709p (Provisional) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
Rail passenger transport
55,566 million passenger-km
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
5.1 per 100,000 people
2024 · Eurostat
Road share of inland freight transport
88.4%
2024 · Eurostat
New zero-emission cars
6.1%
2025 · Eurostat
Road traffic deaths
5.3 per 100,000 people
2019 · World Bank