Car and Commercial Vehicle Production

For a breakdown of production by country in the world, see chart table below:

Country	Cars	Commercial Vehicles	Total	Total Change
Argentina	263,120	168,981	432,101	35,1%
Australia	270,000	60,900	330,900	-16,2%
Austria	248,059	26,873	274,932	8,6%
Belgium	881,929	36,127	918,056	-1,2%
Brazil	2,092,029	519,005	2,611,034	3,3%
Canada	1,389,536	1,182,756	2,572,292	-4,3%
China	5,233,132	1,955,576	7,188,708	25,9%
Czech Rep.	848,922	5,985	854,907	41,3%
Egypt	59,462	32,111	91,573	32,2%
Finland	32,417	353	32,770	51,4%
France	2,723,196	446,023	3,169,219	-10,7%
Germany	5,398,508	421,106	5,819,614	1,1%
Hungary	187,633	3,190	190,823	25,5%
India	1,473,000	546,808	2,019,808	24,2%
Indonesia	206,321	89,687	296,008	-40,1%
Iran	800,000	104,500	904,500	10,7%
Italy	892,502	319,092	1,211,594	16,7%
Japan	9,756,515	1,727,718	11,484,233	6,3%
Malaysia	377,952	125,021	502,973	-10,8%
Mexico	1,097,619	947,899	2,045,518	22,4%
Netherlands	87,332	72,122	159,454	-11,8%
Poland	632,300	82,300	714,600	14,2%
Portugal	143,478	83,847	227,325	3,7%
Romania	201,663	11,934	213,597	9,6%
Russia	1,177,918	330,440	1,508,358	11,6%
Serbia	9,832	1,350	11,182	-21,1%
Slovakia	295,391	0	295,391	35,3%
Slovenia	115,000	35,320	150,320	-15,5%
South Africa	334,482	253,237	587,719	11,9%
South Korea	3,489,136	350,966	3,840,102	3,8%
Spain	2,078,639	698,796	2,777,435	0,9%
Sweden	288,583	44,585	333,168	-1,6%
Taiwan	211,306	91,915	303,221	-32,1%
Thailand	298,819	895,607	1,296,060	15,2%
Turkey	545,682	442,098	987,780	12,4%
Ukraine	274,860	20,400	295,260	36,8%
UK	1,442,085	206,303	1,648,388	-8,6%
USA	4,366,220	6,897,766	11,263,986	-6,0%
Uzbekistan	100,000	10,000	110,000	14,8%
Supplementary	411,982	129,210	541,192
Totals	49,886,549	19,240,607	69,127,156	4,0%

Japan and the United States are neck and neck in total car and commercial vehicle production. For a number of years the quality of Japanese cars was superior to US built cars, and the cost of labor was less in Japan. But the quality and labor cost differences have largely disappeared.


And note that three of the four largest auto producers are high labor cost US, Japan, and Germany.

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Source:  http://www.worldometers.info/cars/