World Car Market Ranking by Country in 2025. Japan overtook India and ranked 3rd with impressive growth as the global automotive sector is stagnating. Canada surpassed Italy and ranked 9th.
World Ranking by Country considers cumulative registrations from more than 150 countries worldwide. Global vehicles sales (cars + light vehicles) in H1 of 2025 have reached 41,54 million units, reporting a 0.1% growth compared to the prior year.
Looking at H1 data for 2025 country-wise, China remained the largest global market, gaining 6.4%. This huge market accounted for 29.7% of all global sales.
USA ranked 2nd despite losing 13% in sales volume. The country held a 16.6% share of the global market.
Japan -up 1 spot- ranked 3rd with a 5.4% share (+10.4%) followed by India -down 1 spot- which secured a 5.3% share (+0.9%).
Ranking 5th, Germany was the largest European market, with a 3.4% share of the total (-4.8%), followed by UK in 6th (-4.8%).
Brazil -up 1 spot- followed in 7th (+4.4%), in front of France -up 1 spot- in 8th (-9.6%), Canada -up 1 spot- in 9th (+6.8%) and Italy -down 1 spot- closing the Top 10 (-4.6%).
Tables with sales figures
In the tables below we report sales for the top 50 markets.
