The new passenger cars registrations in the European Union are decreasing with 1,7%.
Winners and loosers can be seen at our graphic.
All Baltic countries have the biggest raising in registered new passenger cars. For example, in 2011 in Latvia was registered less than 5 cars per 1000 inhabitants new passenger cars (with increase rate 78%), while in Germany almost 40 new cars per 1000 inhabitants (increase rate 9%), in Greece 9 (increase rate -31 %) new passenger cars per 1000 inhabitants was registered.
Portugal, Greece and Spain has lost the most compared with the other countries which is coincident to the general economic situation.

registered-passenger-cars-in-europe-2012

Jan – Dec

Jan – Dec

% Chg

’11

’10

11/10

AUSTRIA

356.145

328.563

+8,4

BELGIUM

572.211

547.347

+4,5

BULGARIA

19.136

15.646

+22,3

CZECH REPUBLIC

173.282

169.236

+2,4

DENMARK

168.707

153.858

+9,7

ESTONIA

15.350

8.848

+73,5

FINLAND

126.123

111.989

+12,6

FRANCE

2.204.229

2.251.669

-2,1

GERMANY

3.173.634

2.916.260

+8,8

GREECE

97.682

141.499

-31,0

HUNGARY

45.097

43.479

+3,7

IRELAND

89.896

88.446

+1,6

ITALY

1.748.143

1.961.579

-10,9

LATVIA

8.849

4.976

+77,8

LITHUANIA

13.223

7.970

+65,9

LUXEMBURG

49.881

49.726

+0,3

NETHERLANDS

556.123

482.544

+15,2

POLAND

277.430

315.858

-12,2

PORTUGAL

153.433

223.464

-31,3

ROMANIA

81.719

94.541

-13,6

SLOVAKIA

68.203

64.033

+6,5

SLOVENIA

58.417

59.226

-1,4

SPAIN

808.059

982.015

-17,7

SWEDEN

304.984

289.684

+5,3

UNITED KINGDOM

1.941.253

2.030.846

-4,4

EUROPEAN UNION (EU27)*

13.111.209

13.343.302

-1,7

EU15

12.350.503

12.559.489

-1,7

EU10*

760.706

783.813

-2,9

ICELAND

5.038

3.106

+62,2

NORWAY

138.345

127.754

+8,3

SWITZERLAND

318.958

294.239

+8,4

EFTA

462.341

425.099

+8,8

EU27*+EFTA

13.573.550

13.768.401

-1,4

EU15+EFTA

12.812.844

12.984.588

-1,3

source: http://www.acea.be/index.php/news/news_detail/passenger_cars_registrations_drop_6.4_in_december_-1.7_in_2011