Car ownership in Moldova

Moldova had 378 passenger cars per 1,000 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2009.

Measure: Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants Unit: Cars per 1,000 inhabitants Data: 2009 to 2025 Source: Eurostat
Moldova, 2025 378 Cars per 1,000 inhabitants
Change from 2024 +29per 1,000 people 2024: 349 per 1,000 people
European Union, 2025 584 per 1,000 people Official aggregate
Position in 2025 35th of 39 See the full ranking

Car ownership in Moldova 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), 2009 to 2025
Period MoldovaEuropean Union
2025 378 per 1,000 people 584 per 1,000 people
2024 349 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 577 per 1,000 people
2023 325 per 1,000 peopleep (estimated, provisional) 570 per 1,000 people
2022 297 per 1,000 peopleep (estimated, provisional) 564 per 1,000 people
2021 279 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 561 per 1,000 people
2020 256 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 556 per 1,000 people
2019 242 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 548 per 1,000 people
2018 226 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 539 per 1,000 people
2017 211 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 530 per 1,000 people
2016 194 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 518 per 1,000 people
2015 186 per 1,000 peoplee (estimated) 508 per 1,000 people
2014 144 per 1,000 people 506 per 1,000 people
2013 137 per 1,000 people 501 per 1,000 people
2012 128 per 1,000 people 497 per 1,000 people
2011 120 per 1,000 people 494 per 1,000 people
2010 114 per 1,000 people 487 per 1,000 people
2009 108 per 1,000 people –

Flags: e estimated; ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.

In short

  • That is a change of +29 from 349 per 1,000 people in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 186 per 1,000 people, the figure has changed by +192.
  • Among the 39 countries with data for 2025, Moldova has the 35th highest value.
  • The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 584 per 1,000 people.

Source and dates

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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
2009 to 2025 for Moldova
Provider update
6 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
Eurostat reuse policy (attribution)
Attribution
Source: Eurostat