New vehicle sales increased by 43% in Lanzarote during the first half of the year compared to 2020, but the figures are still below those recorded before the coronavirus pandemic, according to statistics published in the Cabildo Data Center.
Specifically, from January to June of this 2021, 1,594 vehicles were registered in Lanzarote compared to 1,117 in the same period last year. However, in the first half of 2019, 2,964 vehicles were registered on the island, and a year earlier the figure amounted to 4,053.
Thus, compared to 2019, there is a decrease in registrations of 46.2% and with respect to 2018 of 66.1%.
Regarding this year, 107 vehicles were registered on the island in January and 200 in February, figures that were also lower than those recorded in 2020, specifically by 63 and 45 percent respectively. However, from March onwards, the figures for last year began to be exceeded. In the third month of this year, 200 vehicles were registered compared to 130 in 2020, which represented an interannual increase of 54%.
In April, the growth reached 1,838%, since 155 vehicles were registered on the island compared to the only eight that had been registered in the same month of the previous year. For its part, in May there were 348 registrations when a year earlier there had been 103 and in June there were 584 compared to 223 in 2020.
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