Driving license prices in Germany are increasing drastically

Last year In Germany it has again become significantly more expensive to get a driver’s license. The prices and fees for the services of the driving schools and exams were around 5.8 percent higher than a year earlier in spring 2024, as the Federal Statistical Office reported. The amounts were again above the general increase in consumer prices that have climbed by 2.2 percent.

Fair aus certificates are becoming increasingly expensive: big price jump in Corona year 2021

The statisticians have also noticed this trend of excessively increasing driving license prices in previous years. The difference in Corona year 2021 was particularly great, as prices and fees related to the driver’s license were 9.6 percent, while consumer prices only increased by 3.1 percent.

In the high inflation year 2022, the service providers even hit the driver’s license with 10.8 percent price increase compared to 6.9 percent inflation. That was the highest increase since statistics began in 1991.

The bottom line was that the driver’s license was a good 38 percent more expensive in spring 2024. The statistics office did not construct a « ideal license » for the calculation, but only raised the prices freely raised by the driving schools, for example for driving hours and theoretical lessons as well as the test fees for TÜV or DEKRA. These are stipulated by law and only make up a good 12 percent in the overall view. (dpa)