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Where do the world's new electric cars get sold?

China took 63 percent of the 21.2 million electric cars sold worldwide in 2025.

Adoption Data year: 2025 Refresh frequency: annual Licence: CC BY 4.0

New electric cars sold, 2025

Thousands of cars, top 15 countries

World sales, 2010 to 2025

Thousands of new electric cars sold worldwide

  1. China sold 13.3 million, which is 63 percent of the world total.
  2. The United States ranks second at 1.53 million, roughly 8.7 times below China.
  3. The top five markets together hold 79 percent of world sales.
  4. World sales reached 21.2 million in 2025, 7.1 times the 2020 figure of 2.98 million.

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Method note

Source
Our World in Data, processing IEA Global EV Outlook 2026
Credit
IEA (2026), Global EV Outlook 2026, IEA, Paris. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Processed by Our World in Data.
Licence
CC BY 4.0, which permits republishing with attribution
Definition
Electric cars include fully battery-electric and plug-in hybrids.
Units
clean.csv holds the source count of cars. The chart divides by 1,000 so the axis stays readable.
Scale
Linear, not logarithmic. China dwarfs the rest, and a log scale would make that gap look smaller than it is.
Precision
The source publishes some markets rounded and some exact. Vietnam carries 180,077 against Belgium at 180,000, and both read 180 thousand here.
Downloaded
25 July 2026
Corrections
Errors get fixed within 48 hours of discovery, with a dated note on this page.

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