Brazil’s bus and truck fleets in circulation moving in opposite directions in terms of size
By Jim Gibbins - 1st July 2021
Brazil – The number of buses operating in Brazil in 2020 fell by 0.5% to 388,900 units in circulation as compared with 391,000 units in 2019, according to the National Union of the Automotive Vehicle Component Industry (Sindipeças) with the average age of buses in Brazil having lengthened to ten years and nine months, two months more than in the previous year, ie 10 years and seven months.
Sindipeças stated the figures show that only 19% (about 72,650 units) of the total vehicles in circulation in 2020 were aged up to five years or less, while 61% (which equivalent to 236,647 units) were between six and 15 years, with the remaining 20% (79,649 units) over 16 years of age.
