Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — China

Electric car sales in China in 2025 — 13,300,000 vehicles. Ranked 1 in the world out of 59. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 923,511.1%.

2025 13.3M vehicles +17.7% vs 2024
World rank 1of 59
Period maximum 13.3M vehicles2025
Period minimum 1,440 vehicles2010

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — China, 2010–202505M10M15M2010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 1,440 vehicles2011: 5,120 vehicles2012: 9,860 vehicles2013: 15,730 vehicles2014: 74,000 vehicles2015: 211,000 vehicles2016: 339,000 vehicles2017: 580,000 vehicles2018: 1,090,000 vehicles2019: 1,070,000 vehicles2020: 1,150,000 vehicles2021: 3,250,000 vehicles2022: 6,000,000 vehicles2023: 8,200,000 vehicles2024: 11,300,000 vehicles2025: 13,300,000 vehicles
Change over the period: +13.3M (+923,511.11%) Average annual rate: 83.81 %

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: China

China 13.3M vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
East Asia & Pacific computed 14.31M vehicles
Eastern Asia computed 13.62M vehicles
Upper-middle-income countries computed 14.15M vehicles
Electric car sales — China, by year China All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 13.3M +2M +17.7%
2024 11.3M +3.1M +37.8%
2023 8.2M +2.2M +36.67%
2022 6M +2.75M +84.62%
2021 3.25M +2.1M +182.61%
2020 1.15M +80,000 +7.48%
2019 1.07M −20,000 −1.83%
2018 1.09M +510,000 +87.93%
2017 580,000 +241,000 +71.09%
2016 339,000 +128,000 +60.66%
2015 211,000 +137,000 +185.14%
2014 74,000 +58,270 +370.44%
2013 15,730 +5,870 +59.53%
2012 9,860 +4,740 +92.58%
2011 5,120 +3,680 +255.56%
2010 1,440

Eastern Asia, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The number of electric passenger cars sold over the year, per International Energy Agency data. The concept covers both fully electric cars and hybrids that can be charged from the grid; ordinary hybrids without charging are left out. The growth of this series is among the fastest in the whole of the statistics: over ten years sales have risen roughly a hundredfold, and more than half of the world total is China.

Important: The IEA tracks about sixty of the largest markets, which together account for nearly the entire world total. In the remaining countries sales are not zero but are negligibly small, so aggregates are computed at a lowered coverage threshold.

Source: Global EV Outlook (IEA), license CC BY 4.0.