Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — South Korea

Electric car sales in South Korea in 2025 — 217,000 vehicles. Ranked 9 in the world out of 59. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 355,637.7%.

2025 217,000 vehicles +69.66% vs 2024
World rank 9of 59
Period maximum 217,000 vehicles2025
Period minimum 61 vehicles2010

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — South Korea, 2010–20250100,000200,000300,0002010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 61 vehicles2011: 270 vehicles2012: 510 vehicles2013: 600 vehicles2014: 1,300 vehicles2015: 3,350 vehicles2016: 5,030 vehicles2017: 14,670 vehicles2018: 59,400 vehicles2019: 35,700 vehicles2020: 39,700 vehicles2021: 91,000 vehicles2022: 131,000 vehicles2023: 132,000 vehicles2024: 127,900 vehicles2025: 217,000 vehicles
Change over the period: +216,939 (+355,637.7%) Average annual rate: 72.48 %

Comparison, 2025

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

South Korea 217,000 vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
East Asia & Pacific computed 14.31M vehicles
Eastern Asia computed 13.62M vehicles
High-income countries computed 6.23M vehicles
Electric car sales — South Korea, by year South Korea All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 217,000 +89,100 +69.66%
2024 127,900 −4,100 −3.11%
2023 132,000 +1,000 +0.76%
2022 131,000 +40,000 +43.96%
2021 91,000 +51,300 +129.22%
2020 39,700 +4,000 +11.2%
2019 35,700 −23,700 −39.9%
2018 59,400 +44,730 +304.91%
2017 14,670 +9,640 +191.65%
2016 5,030 +1,680 +50.15%
2015 3,350 +2,050 +157.69%
2014 1,300 +700 +116.67%
2013 600 +90 +17.65%
2012 510 +240 +88.89%
2011 270 +209 +342.62%
2010 61

Eastern Asia, 2025

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

CN China 13.3M KR South Korea 217,000 JP Japan 102,000

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.