Guatemala will have more data on vehicle park and use can guide investment in infrastructure

What was previously a relatively fluid transit in the metropolitan area and the province has given way to a high congestion situation that increasingly affects the population in general, So statistics play a crucial role to understand this phenomenon with updated data.

In daily, labor, student, medical or corporate conversations, one of the most recurring questions refers to the time invested in displacements, either by public transport, private four -wheel or motorcycles vehicles.

Indicators update

A statistical module on the motorization rate (per thousand inhabitants), enabled the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT) and groups the fiscal registered vehicle park that is according to the population estimates prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Economic agents and decision makers can also know the vehicle density indicator at the municipal level, calculated from the road infrastructure of roads, roads and streets based on OpenSTREETMAP, showing the potential of vehicles per kilometer of available road infrastructure.

The authorities of the Tax Administrator consider that these indicators are very relevant to understand vehicular levels and can contribute to dimensioning the high levels of vehicular use in each municipality. This level of information detail was one of the innovations in the launch of the new Satdata+platform, which in the future will also include other data on the online electronic invoice (FEL) that will be public knowledge.

Results

By the end of February 2025, the active vehicle park in Guatemala reached a total of five million 883 thousand 310 vehicles. Now with the use of motorization and density indicators, it becomes more relevant to guide decision -making in the execution of public policies, because they allow all municipalities to be compared and prioritize those that have the greatest potential to present mobility problems or environmental concerns.

According to the report of the SAT, the municipality of Guatemala records a motorization rate of one thousand 162.6 vehicles per thousand inhabitants. However, the municipality that stands out is Salcajá, with an even greater rate than 1,481.5 vehicles per thousand inhabitants, which reflects the highest concentration of vehicles registered according to the fiscal domicile of its owners.

As for the vehicle density indicator, the municipality of Guatemala shows a value of 465.4 Motorized vehicle units per kilometer of road infrastructure available for circulation, while Patzité is the municipality that perceives the lowest density, with 3.0 units per kilometer.

For the collection mayor Erick Echeverría Mazariegos, the relevance of including these indicators as essential resources for economic agents, promoting access to useful information and strengthening the country’s ability to make decisions. It is important to note that these innovations represent a significant advance within the new statistical platform Satdata+, which is available to the public for consultation by municipality and aligns with the principles of data governance adopted in the Tax Administration of Guatemala.

It is known as the motorization rate for the amount of vehicles per thousand inhabitants and vehicular density is the amount of car infrastructure, which now both indicators are more refined.

Information for uses, non -fiscal

Although the data structure presented by the SAT is for fiscal or collection purposes for the vehicle circulation tax (ISCV) that is applied to the owners of motor vehicles, it can also be used for other purposes.

Ricardo Barrientos, director of the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) is the idea that information can be used for other purposes or objectives, outside the strictly tax purposes.

The academic sector and researchers can use this information for territorial reorganization and urbanization issues. To the technicians who work in the mass transport sector of passengers such as the Transmetro or the Train Project.

He added that in the tax iscv is unpopular and more questionable, because when directly bonding between taxpayers who pay it, but if more than three hours are passed in a vehicular traffic and if this tax were a financial solution for public transport solutions and well -studied road planning, this is the source of the data that must be used for those solutions.

The information provides in the country where vehicles are.

As for the applications in environmental matters, according to Barrientos, where there are more vehicles there is more pollution, and where there will be less polluting electric vehicles.

It also provides the information of those who are using more vehicles and who motorcycles.

Finally, there are demographic data, which indicate which social strata that are using private vehicle paid by the ISCV and those who should be using a public transport service to the developed countries, “and not spend eight hours in a bottling with a luxury vehicle.”

For public policy creation

The former SAT of the SAT Abel Cruz Calderón explained that the importance of the creation of the vehicle module provides information to users who can be the municipalities, to have an idea of ​​the vehicle park that is registered in residents of its territory and of that account to be able to make local policies.

On the other hand, it serves for the insurance of vehicles and motorcycles, in understanding the units that has a policy and those that do not and can be seen from public policy and companies in the sector.

It is of interest to the importers of inputs and equipment for vehicles and motorcycles such as spare parts, tires, lubricants, gasoline and diesel; Do market studies and the types of which are more quoted.

It can also be used for contributors to the Guatemalan Social Security Institute (IGSS) of those who are contributing and other information crosses with public institutions such as INE and Bank of Guatemala in their measurements, among others.