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CAPMAS: Egypt’s licensed vehicles rose by 12% in 2014, reaching 7.9 million

The number of licensed vehicles on Egypt's roads rose by 12.2 percent year-over-year in 2014, recording 7.9 million nationwide, compared to 7.04 million in 2013, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Sunday.

According to CAPMAS's Bulletin of licensed vehicles 2014, Cairo is the governorate with the largest number of vehicles (2.2 million), followed by Giza (921,500) and Alexandria (702,100).

The total number of licensed cars reached 4.1 million, 52.3 percent of the total amount of vehicles in 2014. Most cars are private (3.7 million, 91.0 percent), while the remaining 7.8 percent were taxis (322,100).

Vehicles that consume gasoline ranked first, with 5.4 million vehicles, which corresponds to 70.5 percent of the total amount, followed by diesel users, with 4.7 million vehicles (21.9 percent) and gas users (628,500 vehicles – 9.1 percent).

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