Passenger Car Sales by Country (2024)
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Passenger Car Sales by Country (2024)China is overwhelmingly the world's largest car market, with 27.56 million new passenger cars sold in 2024 - more than six times second-placed India (4.27 million) and larger than the rest of the top ten combined. India's rise to second, ahead of Japan (3.73M), confirms its emergence as a car-buying superpower. The United States appears relatively low at 2.98 million because this metric counts passenger cars only; American buyers overwhelmingly favour pickups and SUVs classed as light trucks, which are excluded here. Europe's major markets cluster tightly - Germany (2.82M), the UK (1.95M), France (1.72M) and Italy (1.56M) - while Brazil (1.95M) and Russia (1.55M) round out the list. The data highlights how the centre of global car demand has decisively shifted to Asia.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- TheGlobalEconomy (national vehicle registration data)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 2024 · 10 observations
- Measure
- New Passenger Cars Sold (2024)
- Last updated
- 10 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
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