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, while the province of Flemish Brabant is the opposite, 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).
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. 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).
Other 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. In 2022, Flemish Brabant was also the Belgian province with the highest rate (2.5%) 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.
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