Who Produces the Most Cars?

Based on a comparison of 49 countries in 2023, China ranked the highest in production of passenger cars with 26,124 thousand followed by Japan and India. On the other end of the scale was Australia with 0 thousand, Belarus with 0 thousand and Egypt with 0 thousand.

Total production of passenger cars reached 68,020 thousand in 2023 in the World according to ACEA. This is 9.51 % more than in the previous year and 3.50 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total production of passenger cars reached an all time high of 73,457 thousand in 2017 and an all time low of 37,925 thousand in 1998. The average annual growth amounted to 2.22 % since 1957.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 38.4 % of production of passenger cars in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 56.9 % share while the ten largest countries some 80.4 % in 2023.

Data for more countries are available at Production of Passenger Cars indicator page.