Who Produces the Most Cars?

Based on a comparison of 49 countries in 2017, China ranked the highest in production of passenger cars with 24,807 '000 followed by Japan and Germany. On the other end of the scale was Bangladesh with 0.580 '000, Venezuela with 0.852 '000 and Belarus with 3.58 '000.

Total production of passenger cars reached 73,457 '000 in 2017 in the World according to ACEA. This is 1.45 % more than in the previous year and 27.6 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total production of passenger cars reached an all time high of 73,457 '000 in 2017 and an all time low of 37,925 '000 in 1998. The average annual growth amounted to 3.29 % since 1957.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 33.8 % of production of passenger cars in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 52.8 % share while the ten largest countries some 78.6 % in 2017.

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