Non-electric car sales — all countries

Non-electric car sales — Upper-middle-income countries

Non-electric car sales in upper-middle-income countries in 2025 — 18,198,907 vehicles. Since 2013, the indicator has fallen by 25.3%.

2025 18.2M vehicles −2.69% vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 30.44M vehicles2017
Period minimum 18.2M vehicles2025

Trend over time

2013–2025 · vehicles

Non-electric car sales — Upper-middle-income countries, 2013–202515M20M25M30M35M20132015201720192021202320252013: 24,356,950 vehicles2014: 24,492,942 vehicles2015: 25,124,103 vehicles2016: 27,993,320 vehicles2017: 30,437,004 vehicles2018: 28,897,828 vehicles2019: 27,119,446 vehicles2020: 24,117,587 vehicles2021: 22,365,472 vehicles2022: 20,584,770 vehicles2023: 19,800,334 vehicles2024: 18,702,838 vehicles2025: 18,198,907 vehicles
Change over the period: −6.16M (−25.28%) Average annual rate: -2.4 %

Comparison, 2025

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

Upper-middle-income countries 18.2M vehicles
World 63.6M vehicles
Non-electric car sales — Upper-middle-income countries, by year Upper-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year vehicles Change Change, %
2025 18.2M −503,931 −2.69%
2024 18.7M −1.1M −5.54%
2023 19.8M −784,436 −3.81%
2022 20.58M −1.78M −7.96%
2021 22.37M −1.75M −7.26%
2020 24.12M −3M −11.07%
2019 27.12M −1.78M −6.15%
2018 28.9M −1.54M −5.06%
2017 30.44M +2.44M +8.73%
2016 27.99M +2.87M +11.42%
2015 25.12M +631,161 +2.58%
2014 24.49M +135,992 +0.56%
2013 24.36M

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.