Production of Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Above to 3.5 tonnes)

Based on a comparison of 34 countries in 2017, China ranked the highest in production of heavy commercial vehicles with 2,258 thousand followed by Japan and India. On the other end of the scale was Romania with 0.010 thousand, Venezuela with 0.070 thousand and Azerbaijan with 0.247 thousand.

Total production of heavy commercial vehicles reached 4,142 thousand in 2017 in the World according to ACEA. This is 15.3% more than in the previous year and 21.2% more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total production of heavy commercial vehicles reached an all time high of 4,257 thousand in 2010 and an all time low of 1,929 thousand in 1999. The average annual growth amounted to 4.34% since 1960.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 54.5 % of production of heavy commercial vehicles in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 73.8 % share while the ten largest countries some 94.0% in 2017.