Tyre Consumption & Recovery Fact Sheet - 2023-24

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Australia's love of driving

Australia is the sixth largest country and one of the most sparsely populated in the world placing it in the top 20 countries for vehicles per capita with over 21 million registered road vehicles and a further 4.7 million caravans, trailers and plant and equipment. Collectively, this means there are more than 100 million tyres being used on our roads.

Australia’s need for tyres is sustained by the need to import new tyres loose since the last tyre manufacturing factory ceased operating in 2010 and by a small local retreading industry (mainly truck and bus tyres) and seconds (reuse) market.

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Tyre Consumption & Recovery Fact Sheet 2022-2023

Tyre Consumption & Recovery Fact Sheet 2022 [Five-year average]

Tyre Consumption & Recovery Fact Sheet 2019-20

Tyre Consumption & Recovery Fact Sheet 2018-19