India, March 24 -- The vehicle population in the Capital grew by more than 643,000 in 2025-26 - the largest single-year increase in nine years - even as authorities continued phasing out older vehicles, according to the Economic Survey of Delhi 2025-26 tabled in the Delhi Assembly on Monday.

The total number of motor vehicles in the national capital stood at 8.76 million as of March 19, 2026, registering a 7.9% year-on-year increase over 2024-25 - the highest percentage growth since 2015-16, when it went up 9.9%, according to the Economic Survey.

To be sure, total vehicle registrations fell by 4.3 million in 2021-22, when diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years were deregistered in large numbers as pa...