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Electric car sales — United Arab Emirates

Electric car sales in the United Arab Emirates in 2025 — 37,000 vehicles. Ranked 32 in the world out of 59. Since 2012, the indicator has risen by 18,400%.

2025 37,000 vehicles +54.81% vs 2024
World rank 32of 59
Period maximum 37,000 vehicles2025
Period minimum 49 vehicles2014

Trend over time

2012–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — United Arab Emirates, 2012–2025010,00020,00030,00040,000201220142016201820202022202420252012: 200 vehicles2013: 139 vehicles2014: 49 vehicles2015: 85 vehicles2016: 58 vehicles2017: 479 vehicles2018: 270 vehicles2019: 231 vehicles2020: 691 vehicles2021: 5,100 vehicles2022: 13,700 vehicles2023: 16,900 vehicles2024: 23,900 vehicles2025: 37,000 vehicles
Change over the period: +36,800 (+18,400%) Average annual rate: 49.42 %

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates 37,000 vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
Middle East & North Africa computed 129,941 vehicles
Western Asia computed 369,211 vehicles
High-income countries computed 6.23M vehicles
Electric car sales — United Arab Emirates, by year United Arab Emirates All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 37,000 +13,100 +54.81%
2024 23,900 +7,000 +41.42%
2023 16,900 +3,200 +23.36%
2022 13,700 +8,600 +168.63%
2021 5,100 +4,409 +638.06%
2020 691 +460 +199.13%
2019 231 −39 −14.44%
2018 270 −209 −43.63%
2017 479 +421 +725.86%
2016 58 −27 −31.76%
2015 85 +36 +73.47%
2014 49 −90 −64.75%
2013 139 −61 −30.5%
2012 200

Western 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.