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OICA data reveals how one country produces a third of the world’s cars
The global automotive industry continues to be defined by concentration, and the latest production statistics from the International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) underscore just how uneven the landscape has become. In 2024, the world built 92.5 million motor vehicles (passenger cars and commercial vehicles combined). A visualisation of OICA’s data from the World in Maps divides this total into three equal segments of roughly 33.3 % each and shows that a single country, China, accounts for an entire third of global vehicle output on its own.
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