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In Germany only ~33% of new cars are bought privately, the rest from companies.

Thanks, I ended up on this page too in my research but I don't have a subscription to see the actual data.

In France in 2019 2.61 used cars were sold for each new car.

In Finland in 2019, 625000 used cars were sold vs. 114200 new car registrations. I believe these include both private and company cars, though.

This would be 85% used cars, 15% new cars.

The average age of a bought used car was 13.3 years.

Those are company cars. Privately purchased cars are indeed bought used, overwhelmingly so.