[OC] Die Kosten für den Erwerb eines Führerscheins werden in 36 Ländern als Anteil des durchschnittlichen Monatsgehalts berechnet
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[OC] Die Kosten für den Erwerb eines Führerscheins werden in 36 Ländern als Anteil des durchschnittlichen Monatsgehalts berechnet
Von Successful-Ebb7891
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Source: typical all-in cost of a first car licence per country (driving school lessons actually taken, mandatory courses, theory + practical exams, issuance fees), from national driving-school associations, official statistics and fee schedules – including the Dutch exam authority CBR’s official average of what 2025 candidates actually paid, Hong Kong Consumer Council survey data and Japan’s CPI statistics. Salary: national statistics offices where available (net where published, gross otherwise, marked per row). Federal countries use one named region. Tool: Python (matplotlib). Full per-country breakdown, every source link and date, and a free CSV: [https://carsmultiverse.com/driving-licence-cost-by-country/](https://carsmultiverse.com/driving-licence-cost-by-country/)
Yes. I am Dutch and i can confirm it is very expensive, also consider that our avarage monthly salary is pretty High since we’re a pretty wealty country.
average salary is useless for this. use median instead
Ehhhh not accurate at all for Spain. The starter packs seem cheap but in reality most people end up having to take the practical test multiple times and lots of extra classes at 40-50€ a pop.
These are typical costs which includes general lessons which in many countries are not mandatory, and in others they are mainly provided by parents.
In the UK the minimum cost is ~£34 for a provisional licence, ~£23 for the theory test, and ~£70 for the main driving test. Once you pass the two tests, your licence is upgraded to full.
£127 is less than 5% of the average monthly salary. You could in theory pay that £127 and pass without taking a single lesson.
Depends on how and when you get a driver’s license it can be free in Minnesota, United States. For me I took the class and written portion in high school. The behind the wheel training was done through that class after school hours. The driving test itself is free for your first two attempts.
Would be interesting to see how this correlates with traffic accidents per capita in each country
Net and gross salary on the same chart?
A countries position will be impacted by how they report income as much as how expensive it is to get the licence.
I’m in Ontario and it cost me about 2-4% of my monthly salary, seems suspicious that’s it’s being shown as so much
This can’t be as low as 73% for Germany. The cost for the driving licence is around 3500 Euros. The average income can’t be in the 4500 range.
It only cost me $60? In Canada.
I only had to pay for the test.
There is not mandatory training required. Not in Manitoba at least.
Spain cost me 8 months and over $2000, just got it yesterday. Not counting the need to rent a car and enter on my US passport even though I own a car here because I could not get insurance until I had a license. True cost was closer to $5 grand.
Did you pick the countries at random?
Would be nice to have this data for average wages of 18-25 year olds or something, as most people get their license in that timeframe I suppose.
For some context: I’m Dutch, got my license at 18, which is almost 2 decades ago. It cost me ~€2000,- which I paid for by working a ~€4,- per hour job. Effectively having me work about 500 hours, or the equivalent of over 3 months fulltime. It’s probably worse now, as with many things.
My best guess is that this figure woefully underestimates how many hours people actually need to work for their license, at least for some countries.
For Australia this is just massively wrong.
I can’t speak for every state in Australia but in Victoria you need at least 120 hours of practice on your learners permit to progress into provisional license that allows the holder to drive by themselves.
A lot of this cost is paid by parents of teenagers but without parents providing their own vehicle, it would cost many thousands in private lessons.
Weird graph, at least when it comes to Belgium.
So the average salary here is like 2200€. 70% of that would be 1540?
The lessons can be completed with your parents who can get „guide“ status, all of which can be done in their/your car, which means you don’t need to pay for anything but gas. That alone makes the price drop of about 1200€, which is about what you’ll need to pay for 20 hours of class, effectively lowering the price to 15% average salary.
France is high up but has government bursaries/ €1 loans to help people get their license, in the UK its incredibly expensive and there is 0 government assistance to help you get one
How is thailand 40%? It cost around 500 baht for the driving test + printing fee + medical examination (total of around < $15). Does it factor the cost of buying the cheapest mobile phone to view the free mandatory courses?
Not too useful comparing average salary when most people getting a drivers license are younger and on a lower than average salary
Singapore is lower on the list than I would have expected, considering it has the world’s most expensive cars.
As a swiss guy – yeah checks out
What. Driving license in USA costs like $100 ?
Australia is completely wrong.
It’s so expensive in Europe because most countries make you do a load of hours of classes before u can take your exam, and some like Switzerland, even include first aid training as part of it. The result? American drivers have 3x as many accidents as Europeans for the same distance driven, and are 3x as likely to die from a traffic accident.
Your methodology is inconsistent.
At least for Australia, there are costs missing. Or perhaps (more generously) the licensing mechanism is not fully reflected in your analysis.
For example, in NSW, Australia to get a full drivers license as a new driver under the age of 25 you must:
– Pass the Driver Knowledge Test ($58 per attempt)
– Purchase a learner’s license ($32)
– Complete 120 hours of supervised driving
>> Assuming all hours with a licensed instructor and the safer drivers course undertaken, this reduces the number of required supervised driving hours to 80 under bonus hour mechanisms: $65 per hour of instructed lesson * 80 hours + $140 safer drivers course cost =$5,340
>> Assuming no hours with a licensed instructor and no safer drivers course (i.e supervised by a full license holding member of public): 120 hours * 30km/h average speed * $0.91 per km = $3,276
– Pass the Hazard Perception Test ($58 per attempt)
– Pass the Driving Test ($72 per attempt)
– Purchase Provisional 1 license ($74)
– Purchase Provisional 2 license($115)
– Purchase full license ($74 for a 1 year license)
So we end up with a total cost of:
– $483 not including any of the costs associated with learning to drive.
– And including those costs: $3,759-5,823.
It’s clear from your source that ‘EZ license’ assumes only 6 instructor lessons in the cost. I’m not sure how they think someone will obtain the remaining 102 hours of supervised driving for free. There’s a cost incurred, even if not borne by the learner directly (e.g often by mum or dad).
You also claim your numbers are not worst case or best case. But one of the ‘EZ license’ source you cite directly contradicts this (“assumes all tests passed first try”).
In summary: Do better.
Seems like Sweden is in the best situation since their % is relatively low and are also among the very top countries for road safety
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20190410STO36615/road-death-statistics-in-the-eu-infographic
Use a larger font, please?
Do teenagers not get show by their parents in these countries?
Fairly fundamental problem with this is that you’re using average of presumably _all_ salaries, but then looking at the cost of a particular life event which is usually done once, between the ages of around 15-25 for most people. Would be much more interesting if the income data were filtered down to the age range of people first learning to drive
https://preview.redd.it/0i1m9gnzh8fh1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ceb1259ebe89cb3539cfe2a2c243f8f2f814833
Okay, AI disclaimer here, but would be good to have this graph plotted like this with horizontal axis for price and the vertical axis for road death.
No way Ireland is that low, with mandatory driving lessons, exam written and driven