Albania with the smallest number of vehicles in Europe

Albania continues to be the European country with the lowest number of vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants, which shows that the level of living in our country follows to have a large margin from the continent where we are geographically located.

According to Eurostat data in 2016, The EU averaged 505 autoves per 100 residents, while according to the national data of INSTAT, Albania had 420 thousand autovesturas in 2016 or 146 vehicles per 1000 residents with a slight increase by 2015. Also, according to Nation Master Albania data, there are continuing to be the lowest number of vehicles per 1000 residents compared to the region, where 309 vehicles were registered in Montenegro by 2016, in Serbia 288 autovetures for 1,000 people, and in Bosnia 2014 vehicles per 1000 residents, while Kosovo data is missing.

Among the Member States, Luxembourg toped the list of 662 cars per 10,000 people, followed by Italy (625 cars), Malta (615 cars), Finland (604 cars) and Cyprus (595 cars).

On the other side of the scale, the lowest number of vehicles registered in Albania with 146 Romanian cars 261 cars, Hungary 338 cars, Latvia 341 cars and Croatia 374 vehicles.

Eurostat explains that, over the last few years, machines with electric fuel in the EU still made up a small part of cars.

In general, the number of autovetures has increased in almost all EU member states in 2017. The largest number of new cars were registered in Luxembourg, followed by Italy, Malta and Finland. In 2016, Poland had most of its passengers ' cars older than 20 years, followed by Estonia and Malta.

Preferences about passenger oil cars range in all EU member states.

Among the member states for which recent data is available, gas engines make up most registered passenger vehicles in most countries, while oil passenger vehicles dominate only eight member states.

Middle-sized engines dominated the passenger car fleet in most EU member states; however, in Malta, Hungary, Portugal and Romania dominated smaller engines.

Preferences whether a new vehicle should be supplied by an oil engine or gasoline range from EU member states.

In 2016 the largest number of registered cars was spotted in Germany by 45 million cars, writes ʹmonator. Italy with 37 million cars and France 32 million cars. During the five - year period between 2012 and 2016, there was a strong increase in the number of vehicles registered in several member states.

The highest growth during this period has been recorded in Estonia (17%), followed by Slovakia and Poland (both 16%), Portugal (14%).