The statistics illustrate the shifts in car ownership among households in a certain European country every ten years from 1971 to 2001.
Overall, car ownership witnessed an upward trend over the 30-year period, with the proportion of households without a car seeing a moderate decline, while those of households in possession of one or two vehicles increased noticeably.
At the start of the period, households which did not own a car accounted for roughly 48%, while households with a couple of cars made up under 20%, making it in the minority. Meanwhile, households possessing only one car was the second most common state, with its figure being about 37%.
Over the following decades, car-less households saw a slight decrease to approximately 42% in 1981 before hitting an all-time low of around 27% in 1991 and 2001. By contrast, households owning two cars experienced a mild fluctuation when its percentage kept growing marginally and ending at 30% in 2001 after dropping to just over 20% in 1991. Despite some minor variations, the figure for single-car households registered an ascending trend, making up nearly 50% in 1991,which surpassing the proportion of the possession of one car, before falling to 45% after ten years.