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Based on a comparison of 64 countries in 2022, China ranked the highest in sales of passenger cars with 20,178 thousand followed by Japan and USA. On the other end of the scale was Cyprus with 11.6 thousand, Iceland with 16.7 thousand and Latvia with 16.7 thousand.
Data for more countries are available at Sales Of New Passenger Cars indicator page.
| Sales Of New Passenger Cars | Unit | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Australia | thousand | 927 | 916 | 874 | 799 | 677 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Brazil | thousand | 1,677 | 1,856 | 2,102 | 2,262 | 1,616 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| China | thousand | ... | ... | ... | 24,377 | 24,718 | 23,710 | 21,472 | 20,178 | ... | ... | |||||||||||
| France | thousand | 2,015 | 2,111 | 2,173 | 2,214 | 1,650 | ||||||||||||||||
| Germany | thousand | 3,352 | 3,441 | 3,436 | 3,607 | 2,918 | ||||||||||||||||
| India | thousand | ... | ... | ... | 2,967 | 3,229 | 3,395 | 2,962 | 2,433 | ... | ... | |||||||||||
| Italy | thousand | 1,826 | 1,971 | 1,910 | 1,916 | 1,381 | ||||||||||||||||
| Japan | thousand | 4,146 | 4,386 | 4,391 | 4,301 | 3,810 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Mexico | thousand | 1,066 | 984 | 883 | 764 | 532 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Russia | thousand | ... | ... | ... | 1,240 | 1,449 | 1,607 | 1,568 | 1,434 | ... | ... | |||||||||||
| South Korea | thousand | 1,534 | 1,527 | 1,525 | 1,497 | 1,618 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Spain | thousand | 1,147 | 1,235 | 1,321 | 1,258 | 851 | ||||||||||||||||
| Turkey | thousand | 757 | 723 | 486 | 387 | 610 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| USA | thousand | 6,873 | 6,080 | 5,304 | 4,720 | 3,402 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | thousand | 2,693 | 2,541 | 2,367 | 2,311 | 1,631 |
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