In the first half of 2021, the global production remains down 12% compared to 2019
- Global automotive production reached a volume of 41,071,057 units (passenger car – PCs & light utility vehicles - LUVs) in the first half of 2021, compared to 31,860,525 in the first half of 2020. This volume represents an increase of 28.9% compared to the first half of 2020, but a decrease of 11.8% compared to the first half of 2019 and an even greater drop of 17.4% compared to the first half of 2018.
- Of this total, China produced 12,569,866 units (31% of the global production), ahead of the European Union with 7,568,643 units (18.5%) and the NAFTA region with 7,000,257 units. (17%). These three regions alone account for two-thirds of global automobile production.
- If we compare PCVs to LUVs, the world produced 32,418,294 PCs in the first half of 2021 (up 28.4% over 2020) and 8,652,763 LUVs (up 30.9% over 2020), LUVs representing 21% of the total production.
- The Toyota group remains the world's leading carmaker in 2021, with 5,190,953 light vehicles produced, far ahead of the Volkswagen group (4,301,542 units), the Renault-Nissan group (3,580,305), the group Stellantis (3,523,785), the Hyundai-Kia group (3,318,500) and the GM group (2,682,059).
- Compared to 2020, the GM group falls from fourth place to sixth, while the Stellantis group did not yet exist in 2020, but the addition of PSA and FCA gave a volume corresponding at the time to the fifth largest carmaker in the world. Behind the GM group are the Honda group (2,093,395) and the Ford group (1,802,792).
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