Electric car sales — all countries

Electric car sales — Upper-middle-income countries

Electric car sales in upper-middle-income countries in 2025 — 14,153,460 vehicles. Since 2013, the indicator has risen by 88,977.1%.

2025 14.15M vehicles +20.57% vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 14.15M vehicles2025
Period minimum 15,889 vehicles2013

Trend over time

2013–2025 · vehicles

Electric car sales — Upper-middle-income countries, 2013–202505M10M15M20132015201720192021202320252013: 15,889 vehicles2014: 74,303 vehicles2015: 211,807 vehicles2016: 340,776 vehicles2017: 590,661 vehicles2018: 1,110,337 vehicles2019: 1,088,946 vehicles2020: 1,169,989 vehicles2021: 3,289,822 vehicles2022: 6,078,340 vehicles2023: 8,468,037 vehicles2024: 11,739,222 vehicles2025: 14,153,460 vehicles
Change over the period: +14.14M (+88,977.1%) Average annual rate: 76.12 %

Comparison, 2025

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Upper-middle-income countries

Upper-middle-income countries 14.15M vehicles
World 21.2M vehicles
Electric car sales — Upper-middle-income countries, by year Upper-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 14.15M +2.41M +20.57%
2024 11.74M +3.27M +38.63%
2023 8.47M +2.39M +39.31%
2022 6.08M +2.79M +84.76%
2021 3.29M +2.12M +181.18%
2020 1.17M +81,043 +7.44%
2019 1.09M −21,391 −1.93%
2018 1.11M +519,676 +87.98%
2017 590,661 +249,885 +73.33%
2016 340,776 +128,969 +60.89%
2015 211,807 +137,504 +185.06%
2014 74,303 +58,414 +367.64%
2013 15,889

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.