There were 390 cars per 1,000 inhabitants in the Brussels Region in 2022, according to data published Monday by the European statistics agency Eurostat. This is the Belgian region with the lowest number of vehicles per inhabitant.
On the opposite side of Brussels, we find the province of Flemish Brabant, with 683 cars per 1,000 inhabitants. Limburg follows in this ranking with 540 vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants ahead of Walloon Brabant (524.23), the first Walloon province. In the south of the country, the province of Luxembourg follows (511.31) ahead of Namur (503.88), Liège (489.46) and Hainaut (489.09).
Concerning the rate of electric vehicles, Flemish Brabant was the Belgian province with the highest rate (2.5%) in 2022, ahead of the Brussels Region (1.5%). In Wallonia, Walloon Brabant is in the lead (1.17%) while the other provinces are below the percentage.
Italy overrepresented in Europe
Other European capitals have a vehicle rate as low as Brussels: Berlin (331) and Vienna (366) are among the 10 European regions with the lowest number of vehicles per inhabitant. Eurostat also shows the rate of electric vehicles among this fleet.
The European average is 560 cars per 1,000 inhabitants, although there are strong disparities between regions. Thus, Valle d’Aosta, in Italy, had 2,339 cars per 1,000 inhabitants, ahead of Trentino (1,431), and the province of Bolzano (935), still in Italy. Among the top 10, six were in Italy, and one each in Finland, Greece, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
On the other side of the ranking, the French overseas region of Mayotte presented 83 vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants ahead of the Peloponnese, in Greece (203). Among the 10 regions with the lowest motorization rate in 2022, four were in Greece, two in France, two in Romania and one each in Germany and Austria. Two of these regions were therefore the metropolitan areas of Berlin (331) and Vienna (366).
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