The total number of registered vehicles (excluding military vehicles) in the Sultanate declined by 0.3 per cent from 1,557,453 by the end of December 2020 to reach 1,552,665 by the end of December 2021, according to data issued by the National Centre for Information and Statistics (NCSI).

Vehicles with commercial registration recorded the biggest decline – from 239,639 vehicles by the end of December 2020 to 232,985 by the end of December 2021. Meanwhile, the number of government vehicles went down by 12,695 in December 2020 to 12,206 by the end of December 2021.

Vehicles with private registration accounted for 79.4 per cent of the total number of registered vehicles in Oman, increasing by 11,807 vehicles to reach 1,233,109 compared to 1,221,302 vehicles by the end of December 2020.

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Tutoring vehicles rose from 5,730 by December 2020 to 5,842 by the end of December 2021.

OERLive also learns that lightweight vehicles with engine capacities between 1500cc and 3000cc reached 833,155 by the end of December 2021.

Among colour preferences, it is learned that 665,975 vehicles were registered in white, while 199,428 were in silver, and 128,189 were in grey.

Vehicles with temporary registration (temporary inspection, export, and import) dropped by 50.2 per cent by the end of December 2021 to reach 7,645 compared to 15,351 vehicles by the end of December 2020.