Top 100 Countries by Automotive Exports (Value), 2025 — Top 20, Full Ranking, and Definitions
This page ranks countries by the export value of automotive products. In practice, export value is a signal of how an economy is plugged into global automotive value chains: final assembly hubs, component clusters (parts & modules), and cross-border supplier networks.
Data year used inside charts & tables: 2024 (latest harmonized full-year trade data available at time of publication; page published as “2025” update).
Product scope: HS code 87 (vehicles + parts & accessories for vehicles). “What’s included” is detailed in Block 3.
- Why exports matter: a country can export a lot with a modest domestic car market if it acts as an assembly/export platform (close to OEMs, trade agreements, logistics).
- Why comparability can break: mixing HS scopes (e.g., HS 87 vs “autos + batteries + electronics”) can reshuffle ranks. This page keeps a single, explicit HS definition.
- How to read the page: use Top 20 charts for concentration, then compare exports vs production to separate export hubs from domestic-market producers.
Related context (internal links):
• Trade openness (exports+imports to GDP): Top 100 Countries by Trade Openness, 2025
• Commercial vehicle fleet size: Top 100 Countries by Commercial Vehicle Fleet Size, 2025
Bar shows the Top 20 exporters. Pareto shows cumulative share of the Top 20 in world automotive exports (HS 87). Scatter compares export value (X) vs motor vehicle production (Y) for countries where production data is available.
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Exports are shown as USD bn. Share is the country’s % of world HS 87 exports. Use “Show all 100” to expand.
| Rank | Country | Exports (USD bn) | Share of world (%) |
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Share = HS 87 exports divided by total exports of goods & services (USD). Coverage is limited to countries with total-exports data available for the same year range.
| Rank | Country | Auto exports (USD bn) | Total exports (USD bn) | Auto share (%) |
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This comparison helps separate export platforms from domestic-market producers. Coverage is limited to countries with production data.
| Country | Auto exports (USD bn) | Vehicle production (units) | Exports per vehicle (USD) |
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For this ranking, “automotive exports” is defined as HS 87 (vehicles and parts thereof). This choice is intentional: it keeps the ranking comparable across countries because HS trade reporting is widely available and consistently structured.
Included (HS 87): complete vehicles (passenger cars, commercial vehicles, special-purpose vehicles) and a wide range of
parts & accessories classified under HS 8708 and other HS 87 headings.
Not fully captured by HS 87: many upstream EV inputs (e.g., traction batteries), semiconductors, and some engine categories,
because they often sit in different HS chapters. If you expand the scope beyond HS 87, ranks can shift—especially for economies
specialized in electronics or battery supply chains.
- Interpretation tip: HS 87 is a clean lens for “vehicles + vehicle parts trade,” but it is not a complete measure of the whole EV value chain.
- Comparability tip: when comparing to other sources, verify they also use HS 87 (or clearly document an alternative definition).
Two countries can export the same dollar value for very different reasons. One can be an export platform tightly integrated into cross-border supplier networks; the other can be a large domestic producer where exports are only one channel among many.
Export hub profile
High automotive exports relative to the size of the domestic economy and strong exposure to trade agreements/logistics corridors. Often characterized by assembly + component ecosystems serving external markets.
Domestic market producer profile
Large production capacity and supplier depth, but exports may be a smaller share because a significant fraction is absorbed by the local market or because exports are diversified across product groups outside HS 87.
How to use StatRanker links
Pair this page with Trade openness to understand how export-dependent the economy is overall, and with Commercial vehicle fleet size to approximate domestic transport demand.
Common pitfall
Treating “automotive exports” as “car exports only.” HS 87 includes parts; a country can rank high mainly through component exports, even if final vehicle assembly is smaller.
- Re-exports and logistics hubs: some economies can show elevated trade values due to re-export activity and logistics roles, not only domestic manufacturing.
- Parts vs complete vehicles: high exports can reflect deep supplier networks (modules, components) even when final assembly is elsewhere.
- Exports vs production: production (units) is a quantity metric; exports (USD) also reflect product mix, price levels, and component intensity.
Primary sources :
• International Trade Centre (ITC) — Trade Map (HS product trade):
trademap.org /
ITC tool page:
intracen.org (Trade Map)
• UN Comtrade (HS 87 selection / trade of goods):
data.un.org (ComTrade HS 87)
• World Bank — Exports of goods and services (BoP, current US$):
data.worldbank.org (BX.GSR.GNFS.CD)
• OICA — Production statistics (motor vehicle production by country):
oica.net (Production Statistics)
This ZIP contains the Top 100 tables (CSV) and the chart images (PNG) used for this page: Bar (Top 20), Pareto (Top 20 cumulative share), and Scatter (exports vs production).
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- table1_top_100_automotive_exports_value_usd_bn_2024.csv
- table2_auto_exports_share_of_total_exports_percent.csv
- table3_auto_exports_vs_vehicle_production.csv
- chart_bar_top20_exporters.png
- chart_pareto_top20_cumulative_share.png
- chart_scatter_exports_vs_production.png
- README.txt
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