World Light Vehicle Sales hit the new record in the 2016 with 91.8 million light vehicles sales. China was over 30% of global sales, while Brazil, Russia and Algeria had been the falling stars and Philippines and Vietnam the raising stars.
Our activity to collect and elaborate sales data from all markets in the World in now at almost completed for the full year data, also for the smaller markets, and we can publish the final ranking of the Top 100 Markets for the 2016.
As anticipated, global light vehicles sales hit in the year the new record of 91.9 million units, mainly thanks to the new strong record scored by China. In the last 5 years, global sales improved by almost 20 million vehicles and China was responsable to the half of this.
The top sixth markets, China, USA, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom and India kept the previous year position, all at all time record, a part Japan and Germany.
As far as the position immediately behind, it is remarkable the fall of Brazil (8th) and Russia (13th) which have created space for others, with France up in seventh place, Italy back in the top 10 (9th) and Canada in 10th place, the best ranking ever.
Mexico advanced at best ranking ever as well, in 12th place.
Looking back, Poland was up 2 spots (24th), the Philippines joined the Top 30 (29th), Vietnam was up 5 spots (in 36th) and Algeria has lost 13th places (49th).
Below, you can sort our interactive tables to see data regarding Brands, Groups and Models. Please bear in mind that sales data are subject to adjustments as sources will update their information. This report is updated at the publishing date and will not be modified while the next on this subject will always have the year to date data updated.
| Rank 2016 | Rank 2015 | BRAND | Sales 2016 | Sales 2015 | Variation 2016 | Share 2016 | Share 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | China | 27.977.217 | 24.983.329 | 12,0% | 30,4% | 28,2% |
| 2 | 2 | USA | 17.558.919 | 17.471.283 | 0,5% | 19,1% | 19,7% |
| 3 | 3 | Japan | 4.812.128 | 4.860.973 | -1,0% | 5,2% | 5,5% |
| 4 | 4 | Germany | 3.560.929 | 3.492.978 | 1,9% | 3,9% | 3,9% |
| 5 | 5 | UK | 3.068.473 | 3.017.297 | 1,7% | 3,3% | 3,4% |
| 6 | 6 | India | 3.025.682 | 2.962.601 | 2,1% | 3,3% | 3,3% |
| 7 | 8 | France | 2.422.689 | 2.294.967 | 5,6% | 2,6% | 2,6% |
| 8 | 7 | Brazil | 1.989.223 | 2.477.284 | -19,7% | 2,2% | 2,8% |
| 9 | 11 | Italy | 1.964.566 | 1.713.326 | 14,7% | 2,1% | 1,9% |
| 10 | 9 | Canada | 1.951.664 | 1.901.240 | 2,7% | 2,1% | 2,1% |
| 11 | 10 | South Korea | 1.834.784 | 1.824.288 | 0,6% | 2,0% | 2,1% |
| 12 | 13 | Mexico | 1.604.759 | 1.351.782 | 18,7% | 1,7% | 1,5% |
| 13 | 12 | Russia | 1.425.791 | 1.602.331 | -11,0% | 1,6% | 1,8% |
| 14 | 16 | Iran | 1.347.478 | 1.022.540 | 31,8% | 1,5% | 1,2% |
| 15 | 14 | Spain | 1.313.756 | 1.196.996 | 9,8% | 1,4% | 1,4% |
| 16 | 15 | Australia | 1.153.751 | 1.126.898 | 2,4% | 1,3% | 1,3% |
| 17 | 17 | Indonesia | 1.050.133 | 1.009.031 | 4,1% | 1,1% | 1,1% |
| 18 | 18 | Turkey | 983.732 | 968.015 | 1,6% | 1,1% | 1,1% |
| 19 | 19 | Saudi Arabia | 677.247 | 844.577 | -19,8% | 0,7% | 1,0% |
| 20 | 20 | Thailand | 603.921 | 639.543 | -5,6% | 0,7% | 0,7% |
| 21 | 22 | Belgium | 602.817 | 561.467 | 7,4% | 0,7% | 0,6% |
| 22 | 23 | Argentina | 589.315 | 513.809 | 14,7% | 0,6% | 0,6% |
| 23 | 21 | South Africa | 521.166 | 590.254 | -11,7% | 0,6% | 0,7% |
| 24 | 26 | Poland | 490.574 | 434.503 | 12,9% | 0,5% | 0,5% |
| 25 | 24 | Netherlands | 460.056 | 507.206 | -9,3% | 0,5% | 0,6% |
| 26 | 27 | Taiwan | 439.609 | 420.780 | 4,5% | 0,5% | 0,5% |
| 27 | 25 | Malaysia | 430.077 | 503.474 | -14,6% | 0,5% | 0,6% |
| 28 | 29 | Sweden | 423.794 | 391.116 | 8,4% | 0,5% | 0,4% |
| 29 | 32 | Philippines | 399.587 | 314.303 | 27,1% | 0,4% | 0,4% |
| 30 | 31 | Austria | 358.417 | 343.723 | 4,3% | 0,4% | 0,4% |
| 31 | 30 | Switzerland | 347.324 | 354.801 | -2,1% | 0,4% | 0,4% |
| 32 | 28 | UAE | 307.520 | 408.252 | -24,7% | 0,3% | 0,5% |
| 33 | 36 | Israel | 286.701 | 254.748 | 12,5% | 0,3% | 0,3% |
| 34 | 37 | Chile | 276.676 | 253.811 | 9,0% | 0,3% | 0,3% |
| 35 | 38 | Czech Rep | 274.549 | 251.146 | 9,3% | 0,3% | 0,3% |
| 36 | 41 | Vietnam | 271.864 | 212.754 | 27,8% | 0,3% | 0,2% |
| 37 | 39 | Denmark | 260.036 | 239.763 | 8,5% | 0,3% | 0,3% |
| 38 | 34 | Colombia | 245.766 | 263.483 | -6,7% | 0,3% | 0,3% |
| 39 | 42 | Portugal | 240.997 | 209.312 | 15,1% | 0,3% | 0,2% |
| 40 | 33 | Egypt | 217.425 | 274.389 | -20,8% | 0,2% | 0,3% |
| 41 | 40 | Pakistan | 202.430 | 220.513 | -8,2% | 0,2% | 0,2% |
| 42 | 45 | Norway | 188.335 | 181.927 | 3,5% | 0,2% | 0,2% |
| 43 | 44 | Uzbekistan | 183.975 | 195.157 | -5,7% | 0,2% | 0,2% |
| 44 | 48 | Ireland | 169.687 | 148.850 | 14,0% | 0,2% | 0,2% |
| 45 | 49 | Morocco | 163.551 | 131.777 | 24,1% | 0,2% | 0,1% |
| 46 | 43 | Oman | 159.132 | 201.169 | -20,9% | 0,2% | 0,2% |
| 47 | 47 | Peru | 153.876 | 157.546 | -2,3% | 0,2% | 0,2% |
| 48 | 51 | Finland | 131.087 | 119.477 | 9,7% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 49 | 35 | Algeria | 128.543 | 255.887 | -49,8% | 0,1% | 0,3% |
| 50 | 53 | Hungary | 117.845 | 96.018 | 22,7% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 51 | 46 | Kuwait | 115.898 | 162.402 | -28,6% | 0,1% | 0,2% |
| 52 | 55 | Romania | 108.624 | 93.280 | 16,4% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 53 | 54 | New Zealand | 102.649 | 95.098 | 7,9% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 54 | 56 | Slovakia | 96.436 | 88.853 | 8,5% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 55 | 66 | Singapore | 91.289 | 61.619 | 48,2% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 56 | 60 | Puerto Rico | 88.136 | 80.767 | 9,1% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 57 | 58 | Greece | 84.490 | 81.452 | 3,7% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 58 | 50 | Sri Lanka | 75.265 | 128.252 | -41,3% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 59 | 61 | Slovenia | 73.626 | 67.345 | 9,3% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 60 | 52 | Qatar | 72.230 | 96.581 | -25,2% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 61 | 68 | Ukraine | 67.278 | 56.176 | 19,8% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 62 | 64 | Panama | 66.700 | 64.735 | 3,0% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 63 | 59 | Ecuador | 63.174 | 81.312 | -22,3% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 64 | 67 | Tunisia | 60.520 | 57.640 | 5,0% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 65 | 73 | Costa Rica | 56.834 | 46.849 | 21,3% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 66 | 70 | Luxembourg | 53.420 | 50.575 | 5,6% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 67 | 63 | Bahrain | 49.669 | 65.043 | -23,6% | 0,1% | 0,1% |
| 68 | 72 | Uruguay | 45.421 | 48.467 | -6,3% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 69 | 74 | Bangladesh | 44.637 | 44.637 | 0,0% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 70 | 65 | Jordan | 44.623 | 61.774 | -27,8% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 71 | 79 | Croatia | 43.010 | 34.848 | 23,4% | 0,0% | 0,0% |
| 72 | 75 | Bolivia | 41.827 | 41.016 | 2,0% | 0,0% | 0,0% |
| 73 | 57 | Kazakhstan | 41.246 | 88.409 | -53,3% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 74 | 76 | Lebanon | 38.370 | 39.361 | -2,5% | 0,0% | 0,0% |
| 75 | 78 | Laos | 37.748 | 36.478 | 3,5% | 0,0% | 0,0% |
| 76 | 77 | Palestine | 37.602 | 37.602 | 0,0% | 0,0% | 0,0% |
| 77 | 71 | Nigeria | 36.132 | 48.853 | -26,0% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 78 | 69 | Hong Kong | 34.438 | 54.458 | -36,8% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 79 | 62 | Iraq | 33.136 | 65.913 | -49,7% | 0,0% | 0,1% |
| 80 | 81 | Bulgaria | 32.727 | 29.675 | 10,3% | ||
| 81 | 80 | Guatemala | 30.306 | 30.359 | -0,2% | ||
| 82 | 82 | Reunion | 29.079 | 27.322 | 6,4% | ||
| 83 | 83 | Belarus | 26.987 | 27.027 | -0,1% | ||
| 84 | 86 | Estonia | 26.875 | 24.197 | 11,1% | ||
| 85 | 88 | Serbia | 26.434 | 21.671 | 22,0% | ||
| 86 | 90 | Azerbaijan | 24.265 | 21.068 | 15,2% | ||
| 87 | 94 | Nicaragua | 22.290 | 19.000 | 17,3% | ||
| 88 | 87 | Dominican Republic | 22.272 | 22.272 | 0,0% | ||
| 89 | 91 | Lithuania | 21.749 | 20.425 | 6,5% | ||
| 90 | 96 | Cyprus | 20.984 | 17.039 | 23,2% | ||
| 91 | 85 | Paraguay | 20.802 | 24.559 | -15,3% | ||
| 92 | 99 | Iceland | 20.138 | 15.355 | 31,1% | ||
| 93 | 84 | Libya | 19.334 | 25.440 | -24,0% | ||
| 94 | 97 | Latvia | 18.563 | 16.104 | 15,3% | ||
| 95 | 92 | Namibia | 16.598 | 20.174 | -17,7% | ||
| 96 | 102 | Honduras | 16.200 | 14.292 | 13,4% | ||
| 97 | 98 | Trinidad & Tobago | 15.732 | 15.731 | 0,0% | ||
| 98 | 100 | Guadeloupe | 15.063 | 15.063 | 0,0% | ||
| 99 | 106 | Martinique | 14.196 | 12.265 | 15,7% | ||
| 100 | 93 | Kenya | 13.499 | 19.549 | -30,9% |
