France Motor Vehicle Ownership: HH: Area: Towns: Greater Paris and Paris data was reported at 64.700 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 59.700 % for 2015. France Motor Vehicle Ownership: HH: Area: Towns: Greater Paris and Paris data is updated yearly, averaging 62.400 % from Dec 2002 (Median) to 2017, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 64.700 % in 2017 and a record low of 59.700 % in 2015. France Motor Vehicle Ownership: HH: Area: Towns: Greater Paris and Paris data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by French Automobile Manufacturers Committee . The data is categorized under Global Database’s France – Table FR.TA004: Motor Vehicle Ownership per Household.

From 2000 to 2012, the average price of diesel fuel in France increased from *** to *** euros per liter in 2012, except for a drop in 2009. Between 2012 and 2016, diesel fuel prices decreased again, before growing again up to **** euros per liter in 2017.  

Diesel and fuel prices in France  

The average monthly diesel prices in France increased between 2016 and 2018, although interrupted by slight drops. It also appears that gasoline fuel prices increased by **** percent between October 2017 and October 2018.

Fuel prices and transportation in France  

In a survey from early 2018, ** percent of responding French people declared having a diesel car, while a minority said they owned a hybrid car. Furthermore, over a third of respondents in another survey that same year stated spending between ** and *** euros a month on transportation (all kinds of transportation included). Since November 2018, France is experiencing a broad social movement called the Yellow Vests Movement (French: Gilets Jaunes), which was born among others through social media as a protest to the rising fuel prices planned by the government in the winter of 2018-2019. Besides all political discussions caused by this movement, the issue of increasing the fuel prices for environmental reasons does not seem to convince the French: in a survey from November 2018, half of the respondents stated that they did not think the recent increase of the fuel prices was necessary to address global warming.