Non-electric car sales — all countries

Non-electric car sales — Japan

Non-electric car sales in Japan in 2025 — 3,298,000 vehicles. Ranked 4 in the world out of 59. Since 2010, the indicator has fallen by 20.3%.

2025 3.3M vehicles −7.76% vs 2024
World rank 4of 59
Period maximum 4.61M vehicles2014
Period minimum 3.3M vehicles2025

Trend over time

2010–2025 · vehicles

Non-electric car sales — Japan, 2010–20253M3.5M4M4.5M5M2010201220142016201820202022202420252010: 4,135,531 vehicles2011: 4,185,372 vehicles2012: 4,504,302 vehicles2013: 4,574,175 vehicles2014: 4,605,681 vehicles2015: 4,113,931 vehicles2016: 4,042,267 vehicles2017: 4,446,000 vehicles2018: 4,495,455 vehicles2019: 4,294,333 vehicles2020: 3,866,104 vehicles2021: 3,705,000 vehicles2022: 3,367,286 vehicles2023: 3,860,000 vehicles2024: 3,575,571 vehicles2025: 3,298,000 vehicles
Change over the period: −837,531 (−20.25%) Average annual rate: -1.5 %

Comparison, 2025

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

Japan 3.3M vehicles
World 63.6M vehicles
East Asia & Pacific computed 20.19M vehicles
Eastern Asia computed 16.85M vehicles
High-income countries computed 32.91M vehicles
Non-electric car sales — Japan, by year Japan All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 3.3M −277,571 −7.76%
2024 3.58M −284,429 −7.37%
2023 3.86M +492,714 +14.63%
2022 3.37M −337,714 −9.12%
2021 3.71M −161,104 −4.17%
2020 3.87M −428,229 −9.97%
2019 4.29M −201,122 −4.47%
2018 4.5M +49,455 +1.11%
2017 4.45M +403,733 +9.99%
2016 4.04M −71,664 −1.74%
2015 4.11M −491,750 −10.68%
2014 4.61M +31,506 +0.69%
2013 4.57M +69,873 +1.55%
2012 4.5M +318,930 +7.62%
2011 4.19M +49,841 +1.21%
2010 4.14M

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.