Non-electric car sales — all countries

Non-electric car sales — China

Non-electric car sales in China in 2025 — 11,794,340 vehicles. Ranked 2 in the world out of 59. Since 2010, the indicator has fallen by 18.1%.

2025 11.79M vehicles −3.65% vs 2024
World rank 2of 59
Period maximum 23.59M vehicles2017
Period minimum 11.79M vehicles2025

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Non-electric car sales — China, 2010–202510M15M20M25M2010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 14,398,560 vehicles2011: 15,053,704 vehicles2012: 13,496,989 vehicles2013: 16,369,687 vehicles2014: 17,974,780 vehicles2015: 18,970,818 vehicles2016: 22,261,000 vehicles2017: 23,586,667 vehicles2018: 22,101,489 vehicles2019: 20,330,000 vehicles2020: 19,025,439 vehicles2021: 17,062,500 vehicles2022: 14,689,655 vehicles2023: 13,378,947 vehicles2024: 12,241,667 vehicles2025: 11,794,340 vehicles
Change over the period: −2.6M (−18.09%) Average annual rate: -1.32 %

Comparison, 2025

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

China 11.79M vehicles
World 63.6M vehicles
East Asia & Pacific computed 20.19M vehicles
Eastern Asia computed 16.85M vehicles
Upper-middle-income countries computed 18.2M vehicles
Non-electric car sales — China, by year China All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 11.79M −447,327 −3.65%
2024 12.24M −1.14M −8.5%
2023 13.38M −1.31M −8.92%
2022 14.69M −2.37M −13.91%
2021 17.06M −1.96M −10.32%
2020 19.03M −1.3M −6.42%
2019 20.33M −1.77M −8.02%
2018 22.1M −1.49M −6.3%
2017 23.59M +1.33M +5.96%
2016 22.26M +3.29M +17.34%
2015 18.97M +996,038 +5.54%
2014 17.97M +1.61M +9.81%
2013 16.37M +2.87M +21.28%
2012 13.5M −1.56M −10.34%
2011 15.05M +655,144 +4.55%
2010 14.4M

Eastern Asia, 2025

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

About the indicator

The number of passenger cars with an internal combustion engine sold over the year, ordinary hybrids without charging included. The series is useful precisely in a pair with electric car sales: the two together give the whole market, and their movement shows whether substitution is under way or electric cars are so far simply adding to the earlier volume. The world peak in sales of internal combustion cars has passed, and the series has been falling since.

Important: Together with electric car sales it makes up the entire passenger car market: the IEA has no separate series for total sales, and it is obtained by adding these two.

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