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Which countries buy electric, measured as a share of new car sales?

Norway reached 97 percent in 2025. Eight countries now clear half of all new car sales.

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

Electric share of new car sales, 2025

Top 15 countries of the 59 carrying a 2025 value

The world figure, 2010 to 2025

Electric share of new car sales worldwide, percent

  1. Norway leads at 97 percent, ahead of Denmark at 71 percent.
  2. Eight countries sit at or above half: Norway, Denmark, Nepal, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and China.
  3. Nepal ranks third at 68 percent, above Sweden and the Netherlands.
  4. Worldwide the share hit 25 percent in 2025, against 4.4 percent in 2020.
  5. 19 of the 59 countries with a 2025 value stand at or above 30 percent.

Data table

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. A battery-only figure published elsewhere will read lower.
Coverage
59 countries carry a 2025 value. The chart plots the top 15, where bar labels stay legible on a phone.
Aggregates
World, European Union (27), and the continent and income groupings stay clear of the ranking.
Rounding
Values land in clean.csv exactly as published. Rounding happens at render time only.
Downloaded
25 July 2026
Corrections
Errors get fixed within 48 hours of discovery, with a dated note on this page.

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