Who Produces the Most Cars?

Based on a comparison of 50 countries in 2020, China ranked the highest in production of passenger cars with 19,994 thousand followed by Japan and Germany. On the other end of the scale was Australia with 0 thousand, Bangladesh with 0 thousand and Algeria with 0.754 thousand.

Total production of passenger cars reached 55,834 thousand in 2020 in the World according to ACEA. This is 20.3 % less than in the previous year and -4.35 % less 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 1.63 % since 1957.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 35.8 % of production of passenger cars in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 54.6 % share while the ten largest countries some 79.3 % in 2020.

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