Press Releases

January-December  2020

The Statistical Service announces the publication of the report entitled “Registration of Motor Vehicles” for the period January-December 2020.

In December 2020, the total registrations of motor vehicles numbered 3.288, recording a decrease of 2,3% compared to December 2019. Passenger saloon cars registered a fall of 3,6% to 2.571.

The main developments during the period January-December 2020 compared to the corresponding period of 2019 are summarised as follows:

The total registrations of motor vehicles decreased by 16,1% to 39.367 in January-December 2020, from 46.896 in January-December 2019.

      (b)    Passenger saloon cars decreased to 30.828 from 37.802 in January-December 2019, recording a fall of 18,4%. Of the total passenger saloon cars, 10.237 or 33,2% were new and 20.591 or 66,8% were used cars.

 (c)  Motor coaches and buses registered in 2020 increased to 305, from 175 in 2019.

      (d)    Goods conveyance vehicles decreased by 21,2% to 4.559 in January-December 2020, compared to 5.786 in January-December 2019. In particular, light goods vehicles decreased by 23,6% to 3.812, heavy goods vehicles by 5,2% to 565 and road tractors (units of trailers) by 8,1% to 182.

      (e)    Mopeds < 50cc recorded a decrease of 12,1% to 246 in January-December 2020, compared to 280 in the corresponding period of the previous year.

      (f)     Mechanised cycles> 50cc increased to 2.989 in January-December 2020, compared to 2.433 in January-December 2019, recording an increase of 22,9%.

     (g)    The main suppliers of motor vehicles in Cyprus during 2020 were Japan (28,1%), Germany (22,9%), the United Kingdom (8,5%) and France (7,2%). 

 An electronic version of the report can be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Statistical Service (http://www.cystat.gov.cy) under the section Publications. Within the coming days, the paper publication will also be made available for sale from the Government Printing Office in Nicosia at the price of €10,00 per copy.

EH/ECHR