How many drivers are there in Russia statistics

How many cars are there in Russia now? New statistics published

February 14, 2019 photo Ilya Varlamov / Varlamov.ru

The Russian car fleet is 51.8 million units as of January 1, 2019. This data is provided by the Autostat agency.

Over the past 2018, the number of cars in the country increased by 1.2 million units. The majority of the fleet is passenger cars (43.5 million vehicles). A third of this number falls on Ladas, and the most popular model in the country remains the VAZ-2107.

The number of light commercial vehicles in Russia is 4.1 million units, trucks – 3.8 million units. The most common models in these categories are the Gazelle family and GAZ-53, respectively.

The picture is completed by 0.4 million buses, the most popular of which is the PAZ-3205.

Over the past ten years, the number of passenger cars in Russia has increased by 37% - in 2009 there were 31.8 million cars in the country. Currently, two-thirds of the total vehicle fleet is made up of foreign brands.

Experts counted the number of cars in Russia

As of July 1, 2019, there were 52.4 million cars in Russia. The analytical agency Autostat reported this on September 18.

According to experts, the majority of cars in the country are passenger cars. There are 44.1 million units, which is 84% of the country’s total vehicle fleet.

Light commercial vehicles account for almost 8% of the fleet, or more than 4.1 million vehicles. In addition, almost 3.8 million trucks are registered in Russia, their share is more than 7%. There are also 400 thousand buses in the country - less than 1%.

On August 27, it was reported that the average age of a Russian car owner is 37 years.

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The most common road accidents in Russia

Every day, 460 accidents involving casualties occur on the country’s roads. 50 people die in them.

If you look at the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and insurance companies, most road accidents occur according to the same scenarios. We studied this data and compiled a picture of a typical road accident in Russia.

How many accidents happened

The statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which are published in the public domain, include only road accidents with deaths and injuries.

According to these statistics, in 2018, there were 168 thousand road accidents with injuries in the country. Every ninth is fatal. During the year, 18 thousand people died on the country’s roads. Another 215 thousand people were injured. But the annual number of road accidents and the number of victims is gradually decreasing.

Review of road accidents for 2018, Scientific Center for Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal AffairsPDF, 1.7 MB

Every tenth accident in the country was caused by drunk drivers. 4,645 people died in such accidents last year, a quarter of all road deaths.

12.5% of accidents end with one of the participants in the accident leaving the scene, 40% of them are never found. Another 1.5% of car owners abandon their car and run away on their own - but such people are almost always found.

The most dangerous region, according to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is Chechnya. Here, for every thousand accidents with casualties, there are 414 fatalities. Ingushetia is in second place: 291 dead. In third place is Kabardino-Balkaria: 270. Victims most often survive in St. Petersburg: there are 36 fatalities per thousand road accidents.

It is difficult to count accidents in which only cars were damaged. According to insurer statistics, approximately a third of drivers file such accidents using the European protocol. In 2017, approximately 500 thousand drivers did without calling traffic inspectors.

If we assume that two car owners were involved in each accident, then in total there are about 750 thousand accidents without injuries every year. Of these, 250 thousand are processed under the European protocol.

In addition, statistics do not take into account situations where drivers negotiate on the spot without calling the emergency commissioner. For example, one car smashed the bumper of another, the culprit gave money to the owner of the damaged car on the spot - and everyone left almost happy. No one knows how many such accidents occur.

To whom and why do accidents happen?

The average age of a driver involved in an accident is between 30 and 40 years old. A third of all accidents occur due to the fault of such car owners. Moreover, those who have recently gotten behind the wheel drive more carefully: most often accidents happen to those who have driving experience from two to ten years.

Four out of five cars involved in accidents last year were passenger cars. According to Tinkoff Insurance, Solaris and Kia Rio suffer most often: for each brand, 27% of cars were involved in an accident. Volkswagen Polo is in second place: 25% of owners of insured cars contacted insurers. In third place are Ford Focuses: 19%. Despite the fact that the best-selling cars in Russia came off the VAZ assembly line, foreign cars are hit more often.

Nine out of ten road accidents occur because drivers violate traffic rules. Most often, they do not comply with priority signs at intersections. At the same time, a third of all violations occur due to the fact that something is wrong with the road. For example, a road sign is not visible, or it is not there at all, or the markings have been erased.

The most common type of traffic accident is a two-vehicle collision. In second place is a collision with a pedestrian. The third is when the car overturns, for example if the driver loses control on a slippery road. There are also exotic reasons: last year the traffic police registered 428 cases of collisions with animals. Although a typical road accident is banal: you didn’t let someone else’s car through at an intersection and crashed into it.

Where and when do accidents happen?

Three quarters of all road accidents last year occurred in populated areas. More than half are in regional capitals. Country roads account for only a quarter of road accidents, but the consequences are usually more severe: people get injured and die here three times more often than on city streets. The most dangerous road accidents are on high-speed federal highways: every second death in car accidents happens outside the city.

According to Tinkoff Insurance statistics, the most accident-prone region of the country is the Novosibirsk region: last year, 20% of cars insured here were involved in an accident. Second place is shared between Moscow and the Moscow region: 17% of cars were damaged. In third place is the Krasnodar Territory: 15%. The most dangerous places in the country are at the intersections of Novosibirsk.

40% of all accidents occur from July to October. Most of all - in August: last year in this month there were 17 thousand accidents with injuries. For comparison, in February it was almost two times less. The most dangerous day of the week is Saturday. The most emergency time is from five to eight o'clock in the evening. Every fifth accident occurs during this three-hour period.

Average accident

After analyzing the statistics, we painted a picture of a typical Russian road accident.

August, Saturday evening, Novosibirsk. The average 39-year-old Russian Alexander is driving around the city in his Solaris. This is not his first year behind the wheel - he has 7 years of driving experience. But, driving through the next intersection, Alexander does not notice the “Give way” sign and crashes into a Kia Rio. There were no injuries, and the damage to the cars was not serious: the headlight and bumper of the Solaris were broken, and the wing of the Rio was bent. Alexander and the owner of the damaged car register the accident according to the European protocol and leave. A curtain.

This is how many cars are registered in Russia

How much has the country's vehicle fleet grown in 10 years?

Interesting statistical information about the number of cars registered in Russia has appeared on the traffic police website. According to the State Traffic Inspectorate, over the past decade, the country’s vehicle fleet has almost doubled – by 25.7 million vehicles, or from 34 million to 59.7 million units.

The traffic police note:

To date, more than 46.8 million cars , more than 6.4 million trucks , 895.5 thousand buses , 2.3 million motor vehicles and more than 3.2 million trailers and semi-trailers .

Even despite the crisis in the new car market, on average the number of vehicles increases annually by 2-2.5 million units , most of which are passenger cars.

In 2017, more than 11 million registration actions were carried out in the departments of the State Traffic Inspectorate.

Moreover, as noted earlier by other companies that carried out analysis of the Russian market, the largest number of cars are dispersed across large cities of the country, and there are especially many of them in two megacities - Moscow and St. Petersburg, here the number of cars runs into the millions. In other large Russian centers - hundreds of thousands.

It is also interesting that the analytical agency Autostat cited slightly different figures in 2017. Thus, the number of passenger cars on Russian roads, according to experts, has increased by 50% over the past ten years: in 2007, about 28 million cars were recorded, and in 2017 the figure exceeded 42 million units.

Let us remind you that the most popular models owned by fellow citizens remain a variety of domestic cars, including the bestsellers of past years Lada: from 2106 to Priora, Ford Focus and Toyota Corolla.

We calculated how many cars there are in Russia

Author: Demidova Marina. Economist, mathematician. 30 years of experience in government statistics. Date: April 27, 2019. Reading time 5 minutes.

According to official data, at the beginning of 2018 in Russia there were 46,887 thousand cars that had passed state registration with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, of which 44,792 thousand were in the personal property of citizens. The analytical agency has slightly less, 43.5 million copies. at the beginning of 2019

Today there is no need to wonder what a car is for. It has long been recognized by everyone that this is a means of transportation. Gone are the times of Soviet power, when this vehicle was not called anything other than luxury. In 1970, citizens of the RSFSR owned only 724 thousand passenger cars. Over the decade, by 1980, their number increased to 4,194.7 thousand, or 5.8 times. To find out how many passenger cars there are in Russia at the present time, let’s turn to official statistics.

Rosstat on the number of passenger cars

By the time of the collapse of the Union in the Russian Federation, there were 9,417 thousand cars in the personal property of citizens.

Rice. 1. Cars in Soviet Russia, thousand units at the end of the year

By 2010, the Russian passenger car fleet consisted of 34,354 thousand units, of which 32,629 thousand were in the personal possession of citizens. This is 3.5 and 3.4 times more than in 1991, respectively. By the beginning of 2018, the vehicle fleet had grown by another 36.5% (by 37.3% in personal ownership) and exceeded the 1991 level by 4.8 times.

Rice. 2. Cars in the Russian Federation, thousand units at the end of the year

Rosstat publishes data on vehicles that are registered in the structural divisions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

We can judge the structural composition of the passenger car fleet based on data supplied by another source - the analytical agency Autostat. It should be noted that they differ from the official ones.

Change in the number of cars, according to the analytical agency Autostat

As of January 1, 2019, the automobile fleet of the Russian Federation consisted of 51.8 million units of equipment. Among them, 43.5 million are passenger cars. Over the past ten years, their number has increased by 36.8%.

Almost every third car among them is a Lada, and the most popular model is the VAZ-2107.

Among the leaders of the Russian vehicle fleet:

LADA – 14 million;
Toyota – 3.8 million;
Nissan – 2.07 million;
Hyundai – 2.05 million;
KIA – 1.9 million;
Renault – 1.8 million;
Chevrolet – 1.66 million;
Volkswagen – 1.61 million;
Ford – 1.39 million;
Mitsubishi – 1.17 million

Models from other brands did not reach the 1 million mark.

Structure of the passenger car fleet at the beginning of 2019

There are 43,526 thousand passenger cars in the Russian Federation. More than half of them are foreign brands.

Models of foreign brands

There are about 27 million foreign brands in the Russian vehicle fleet. Among them, the most models are Japanese brands (9.8 million units, or 22.5%), Korean (4.9 million units, or 11.3%) and German brands (4.5 million units, or 9 .2%).

Table 1. Share of the most common foreign cars