Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — OECD

Electric car sales in the OECD in 2025 — 6,488,560 vehicles. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 128,922.9%.

2025 6.49M vehicles +22.07% vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 6.49M vehicles2025
Period minimum 5,029 vehicles2010

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — OECD, 2010–202502M4M6M8M2010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 5,029 vehicles2011: 42,154 vehicles2012: 107,580 vehicles2013: 188,724 vehicles2014: 252,867 vehicles2015: 309,908 vehicles2016: 434,567 vehicles2017: 596,746 vehicles2018: 919,343 vehicles2019: 1,038,203 vehicles2020: 1,799,522 vehicles2021: 3,191,630 vehicles2022: 4,061,591 vehicles2023: 5,113,157 vehicles2024: 5,315,262 vehicles2025: 6,488,560 vehicles
Change over the period: +6.48M (+128,922.87%) Average annual rate: 61.2 %

Comparison, 2025

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

OECD 6.49M vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
Electric car sales — OECD, by year OECD All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 6.49M +1.17M +22.07%
2024 5.32M +202,105 +3.95%
2023 5.11M +1.05M +25.89%
2022 4.06M +869,961 +27.26%
2021 3.19M +1.39M +77.36%
2020 1.8M +761,319 +73.33%
2019 1.04M +118,860 +12.93%
2018 919,343 +322,597 +54.06%
2017 596,746 +162,179 +37.32%
2016 434,567 +124,659 +40.22%
2015 309,908 +57,041 +22.56%
2014 252,867 +64,143 +33.99%
2013 188,724 +81,144 +75.43%
2012 107,580 +65,426 +155.21%
2011 42,154 +37,125 +738.22%
2010 5,029

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.