The bar chart illustrates how many vehicles were registered in a European country between 1996 and 2006. Overall, the number of lorries and motorcycles declined, while private cars and other types of vehicles increased in number. Seemingly, the number of registered buses remained unchanged and the lowest in both years, while the most registered vehicles were private cars.
Turning to the details, about 0.5 million lorries in use were registered in 1996, decreasing by 20% to 0.4 million in 2006. Adhering to a similar trend, the number of motorcycles went down from 1.0 million to 0.6 million between 1996 and 2006. Adversely, there was an increase of 58% in other types of vehicles registered from 1.2 million to 1.9 million over the period of time observed.
Number of private cars overnumbered all other types of vehicles, while buses were the least registered. Increasing by 28% from 19 million to 24 million in a decade, private cars were the most popular vehicles to be registered in both years, while buses with 0.1 million stayed the least common vehicles in use that were registered, having no change in progression from 1996 to 2006.