Over 1.7mn vehicles registered by the end of December 2024

Muscat: The number of registered vehicles in the Sultanate of Oman by the end of December 2024 amounted to about 1,753,872 vehicles, of which private licencing accounted for 79.6 percent, with a number of 1,396,117 vehicles.

The most common vehicles were those with engine capacities between 1,500 and 3,000 cc, accounting for 54.4 percent, or 954,137 vehicles, while the white colour accounted for 42.5 percent, or 745,196 vehicles.

Statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information indicated that commercially licenced vehicles accounted for 14.5 percent, with a number of 253,895 vehicles, while the number of rental vehicles amounted to 39,919, representing 2.3 percent, and the number of taxis amounted to 28,239, representing 1.6 percent.

In terms of vehicle weights, the number of vehicles weighing less than 3 tonnes reached 1,591,234, representing 90.7 percent of the total vehicles registered in the Sultanate of Oman.