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Number of people with a driving licence Type of driving licence, age of licence holder, region

On 1 January 2023, over 11.5 million people were holding a Dutch car driving licence, 0.7 percent more than one year previously.

Passenger cars, delivery vans, lorries, road tractors, buses, trailers, semi-trailers, motorcycles, vehicle age classes.

As of 1 January 2021, the total passenger car fleet in the Netherlands stood at nearly 8.8 million. This is over 1 percent up on the previous year.

In 2020, 78 percent of Dutch car drivers aged 18 and over said they sometimes deliberately left their car at home.

In January 2020 the passenger car fleet in the Netherlands stood at almost 8.7 million; this represented a faster growth rate than of the population aged 18 and over.

Car ownership and driving licence ownership of young adult students and workers.

Early 2016 the number of plug-in hybrids had doubled relative to 2015.

2019 will be the first year in which half the Dutch adult population will be older than 50 years. In many Dutch municipalities more than half of the population are already over 50.

Fewer young people own are cars, but the car ownership rate among older people is growing. The total number of cars, mopeds and motorcycles in the Netherlands is still growing, though less rapidly.

Early 2011, half of over-18s had a car registered in their name. On paper, more men than women are registered as car owners.

In the period 2000-2009, the number of car owners over the age of 65 has risen considerably. Among over-80s, car ownership even doubled.