Scooter statistics span several different vehicles and measures: automatic motor scooters, stand-up e-scooters, conventional scooters, shared micromobility and broader two-wheeler markets. The figures below keep those definitions, geographies and measurement periods separate, covering market scale, use, cost and injury outcomes.
Key Scooter Statistics
The most useful headline figures are:
- In 2023, India sold about 17.97 million two-wheelers, representing about 27% of the global two-wheeler market.
- In 2023, China sold 16.6 million two-wheelers, representing about 25% of the global market.
- In 2024, Europe recorded 748,897 registered scooters under Piaggio’s European scooter-market definition.
- In 2024, the global automatic-scooter segment approached 5.7 million units as a company-industry estimate.
- India’s domestic two-wheeler sales reached 19,543,093 vehicles in calendar 2024.
- India’s domestic two-wheeler sales grew 14.5% in 2024 compared with 2023.
- Shared bike and scooter systems in the United States and Canada recorded 157 million trips in 2023.
- The 2023 U.S. and Canadian shared-micromobility total was 20% higher than in 2022.
- U.S. shared-micromobility systems recorded 133 million trips in 2023.
- Canadian shared-micromobility systems recorded 24 million trips in 2023.
- Dockless scooter systems in the United States and Canada recorded 69 million trips in 2023, up from 58.5 million in 2022.
- A typical dockless e-scooter or e-bike trip in the United States and Canada lasted 11 to 12 minutes in 2023.
- The average one-way dockless e-bike or e-scooter trip cost about $6 in 2023.
- U.S. NEISS estimated 189,517 e-scooter injuries from 2017 through 2022.
- Estimated annual U.S. e-scooter injuries increased from 8,566 in 2017 to 56,847 in 2022.
- Great Britain recorded 1,292 police-reported e-scooter collisions and 1,387 casualties in 2023.
- Great Britain recorded six e-scooter collision deaths in 2023, all among e-scooter riders.
- In a U.S. hospitalized injury cohort from 2016 through 2020, major operations occurred in 55.8% of scooter-related cases.
Contents
- Global and regional scooter market scale
- Scooter sales and registration trends
- Shared e-scooter ridership and trip economics
- U.S. scooter injury statistics
- Great Britain e-scooter road casualties
- Scooter safety patterns and clinical outcomes
Global and Regional Scooter Market Scale
Available market figures show why “scooter market” needs a precise definition. India and China figures cover all two-wheelers, while European and global segment figures distinguish scooters or automatic scooters more narrowly.
| Market or segment | Period | Reported scale | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2023 | 17.97 million; 27% share | All two-wheelers |
| China | 2023 | 16.6 million; 25% share | All two-wheelers |
| Europe | 2024 | 748,897 registrations | Piaggio European scooter market |
| Global automatic scooters | 2024 | Close to 5.7 million units | Company-industry estimate |
| Global gear-operated cubs | 2024 | Almost 342,000 units | Related, not automatic scooters |
The SIAM Annual Report 2023-24 reports India’s 2023 two-wheeler scale and China’s market share. Those figures include motorcycles and scooters, so they are not scooter-only totals.
Piaggio’s Annual Report 2024 reports 748,897 European scooter registrations in 2024, a 3.3% increase from 2023. It also places the global automatic-scooter segment close to 5.7 million units, up 2.3%, while the related gear-operated cub segment reached almost 342,000 units, up 7.9%.
The cub measure should not be merged with automatic scooters: cubs are related gear-operated two-wheelers. Likewise, the European registration measure follows the company’s market definition and is not necessarily the same as retail sell-through.
Scooter Sales and Registration Trends in India and Europe
India’s official 2024 release provides useful two-wheeler context but does not isolate scooters from motorcycles. The period labels also matter because SIAM reports both April–December and full-calendar-year figures.
| India measure | April–December 2024 | January–December 2024 | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicles produced | 23,214,969 | 30,610,778 | Multiple vehicle classes |
| Domestic two-wheeler sales | — | 19,543,093 | Motorcycles and scooters |
| Domestic three-wheeler sales | 5,624,652 | 728,670 | Adjacent class |
| Domestic passenger-vehicle sales | 3,139,288 | 4,274,793 | Adjacent class |
According to the SIAM Press Release: Sales Data for Calendar Year 2024, India’s domestic two-wheeler sales grew 14.5% in 2024, while passenger-vehicle sales grew 4.2% and three-wheeler sales grew 6.8%. The broader production figures aggregate passenger, commercial, three-wheeler, two-wheeler and quadricycle categories.
The release formats the April–December production total as 2,32,14,969 and the calendar-year three-wheeler figure as 7,28,670. These are retained here as 23,214,969 and 728,670 for readability, without treating adjacent categories as scooter sales.
Across Europe, the Piaggio measure points to a 3.3% registration increase from 2023 to 2024. Registration changes describe vehicles recorded in the market, not necessarily the number sold directly to end users during the same period.
Shared E-Scooter Ridership and Trip Economics
Shared-system data captures reported trips rather than all private scooter use. In the United States and Canada, combined shared bike and scooter systems reached 157 million trips in 2023, exceeding the 147 million pre-pandemic peak recorded in 2019.
| Shared mobility measure | 2023 result | Geography and definition |
|---|---|---|
| Bike and scooter systems | 157 million trips | United States and Canada |
| Station-based systems | 81 million trips | United States and Canada; mostly bike-share |
| Dockless scooter systems | 69 million trips | United States and Canada |
| U.S. shared systems | 133 million trips | Bikes and scooters combined |
| Canadian shared systems | 24 million trips | Bikes and scooters combined |
The NACTO Shared Micromobility Report: 2023 reports that the combined 2023 total was 20% higher than 2022 and above the 2019 peak. Canadian trips increased 40% in 2023, while station-based trips rose from 67 million in 2022 to 81 million in 2023.
NACTO reports 69 million dockless scooter trips in 2023, up 15% from 58.5 million in 2022. A typical dockless e-scooter or e-bike trip lasted 11 to 12 minutes, and the average one-way trip cost about $6, although pricing varied by city, operator and duration.
Reported prices also varied sharply. NACTO cites an $11 example for a 15-minute trip in Arizona and nearly $9 for a six-minute trip in North Carolina; neither is a statewide average.
The NACTO 2023 Snapshot counts 65 million U.S. dockless e-scooter trips in 2023, compared with 56.5 million in 2022. Forty percent of those U.S. trips occurred in 10 cities.
San Diego illustrates how policy and operator availability can affect local totals: trips fell from 3 million in 2022 to 360,000 in 2023, while available e-scooters had been reduced from 6,500 per day to about 2,500 per day in 2022.
U.S. Scooter Injury Statistics
U.S. injury studies use different populations and methods, so emergency-department estimates, hospital cohorts and exposure-adjusted risk should not be treated as interchangeable. The NEISS figures are weighted national estimates, not counts of every injury or per-trip crash rates.
| Injury measure | Estimate or result | Period and population |
|---|---|---|
| Conventional-scooter injuries | 304,783 | U.S., 2017–2022 |
| E-scooter injuries | 189,517 | U.S., 2017–2022 |
| Bicycle injuries | 2,499,843 | U.S., 2017–2022 comparator |
| E-bicycle injuries | 45,586 | U.S., 2017–2022 comparator |
The peer-reviewed study Injuries With Electric vs Conventional Scooters and Bicycles estimated 189,517 e-scooter injuries from 2017 through 2022, with a 95% confidence interval of 126,101 to 252,932. Conventional-scooter injuries were estimated at 304,783 over the same period.
Estimated annual e-scooter injuries rose from 8,566 in 2017 to 56,847 in 2022. The study reports an increase of more than 45% annually across the series, based on regression of weighted estimates; this is not a per-trip risk measure.
Among the combined injured rider sample, the median age was 28 years, with an interquartile range of 12 to 51. Helmet use was documented in 43% of electric-vehicle incidents and 52% of conventional-vehicle incidents, but only narratives explicitly referencing helmet use were eligible for that comparison.
Electric micromobility injuries occurred in urban settings in 83% of cases, compared with 71% for conventional vehicles. Across bicycles, scooters, e-bikes and e-scooters, estimated hospitalizations increased from about 48,863 in 2017 to 70,644 in 2022.
Great Britain E-Scooter Road Casualties
Great Britain’s figures cover police-reported personal-injury collisions and include severity-adjusted estimates. They therefore describe reported road casualties, not every collision or every e-scooter injury.
| Great Britain measure | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| E-scooter collisions | 1,411 | 1,292 |
| E-scooter casualties | 1,502 | 1,387 |
| Fatalities | 12 | 6 |
| Serious injuries, severity-adjusted | 441 | 416 |
| Slight injuries, severity-adjusted | 1,049 | 965 |
The official Reported road casualties Great Britain: e-Scooter factsheet 2023 records 1,292 collisions and 1,387 casualties in 2023. Of those casualties, 1,117 were e-scooter users and the remainder were other road users.
The 2023 total included 284 single-vehicle collisions involving only one e-scooter. Six people were killed, all of them e-scooter riders, while the severity-adjusted estimates included 416 seriously injured and 965 slightly injured people.
Compared with 2022, reported collisions fell from 1,411 to 1,292, casualties from 1,502 to 1,387, and fatalities from 12 to 6. The serious- and slight-injury comparisons use adjusted estimates rather than raw police counts.
Scooter Safety Patterns and Clinical Outcomes
Hospital-based evidence describes people who received emergency or inpatient care, not the full riding population. It is especially important not to generalize these clinical outcomes to all trips or interpret associations as causal effects.
In the National Inpatient Sample study National Trends and Clinical Outcomes after Scooter Injury in the US: 2016 to 2020, 6,125 of 92,815 hospitalized injured patients under age 65 had scooter-related injuries. Scooter-related cases represented 6.6% of the cohort, whose denominator included bicycle- and scooter-related hospitalized injuries.
| Hospitalized outcome | Scooter-related cases | Bicycle-related cases or comparison |
|---|---|---|
| Patients younger than 18 | 26.7% | 16.4% |
| Major operations | 55.8% | 48.1% |
| Adjusted odds of long-bone fracture | — | 1.40 times scooter versus bicycle |
| Adjusted odds of paralysis | — | 2.06 times scooter versus bicycle |
After adjustment, scooter-related injuries had 1.40 times the odds of long-bone fracture versus bicycle injuries, with a 95% confidence interval of 1.15 to 1.70. The adjusted odds of paralysis were 2.06 times higher, with a 95% confidence interval of 1.16 to 3.69; both are observational comparisons.
The NEISS study found age-adjusted odds of hospitalization for Black patients versus White patients among injured electric-vehicle users of 0.76, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.59 to 0.98. This is an association in emergency-department injury data, not a population risk estimate.
A separate retrospective study, Association between e-scooter temporal usage patterns with injuries resulting in admission to a level one trauma center, admitted 194 injured e-scooter patients at a large U.S. city level-one trauma center during the study period reported by that source. Its single-center design and admission-based population limit how broadly the result can be applied.