Number of motor vehicles in Egypt rose by 100K in 2021: CAPMAS

CAIRO – 14 June 2022: The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) released Tuesday the 2021 figures on motor vehicles in Egypt, indicating that the number of those rose from 10.8 million in 2020 to 10.9 million.

The vehicles are mainly concentrated in Cairo (2.5 million/22.8 percent), Giza (1.3 million/11.6 percent), and Alexandria (702,300/6.4 percent). As for the governorate with the least number of vehicles, it is North Sinai with just 34,800 (three percent).

The figures also showed that Egypt has 5.4 million passenger cars, which compose 49.4 percent of the vehicles. Those include 347,900 cars operating as taxis.

On the other hand, buses constitute just 1.7 percent of vehicles, as their number is 180,000. The breakdown is 80,600 private buses (44.8 percent of all buses), 48,400 tourist buses (26.9 percent), and 15,000 schools buses (8.3 percent). The rest are public transport buses.  

Trucks and road trains represent 11.5 percent and 0.9 percent of vehicles with 1.3 million and 97,900, respectively. As for auto rickshaws known in Egypt as Tuktuk, their share is 2.8 percent of Egypt's vehicles with 307,000 units.