Motor Vehicle Production

INTRODUCTION

The motor vehicle manufacturing industry is a good indicator of both the industrial and technological capacity of a country. This page looks at motor vehicle production from 1950 to 2010 as there have been significant shifts in the geographical location of production over this period. 

Charts

1. Global Motor Vehicle Production 1970 – 2010

2. Share of Global Motor Vehicle Production by Region 1970 – 2010

3. Motor Vehicle Production by Region 1970 – 2010

Data Table

4. Motor Vehicle Production by Region of World 1950 – 2010

East Asia has seen a dramatic rise in vehicle production in the 21st century as part of it’s overall economic and manufacturing rise. China is by far the leading country today for motor vehicle production. The rise in East Asian production has driven a bigger global increase in production between 2000 and 2010 compared with growth in previous decades. The modest decline in East Asian production in the last decade of the 20th century was due to a decline in the Japanese car industry and because the Chinese car industry hadn’t yet made up for it. North American production has declined in the 21st century. Other developing regions have also seen an increase in production. As US car manufacturers have moved production facilities to Latin America, mainly Mexico, Latin American production has increased rapidly. Western Europe has also seen a decline between 2000 and 2010 but less than North America in large part because the German car industry remains very strong. 

OTHER PAGES ABOUT MANUFACTURING & INFRASTRUCTURE

Source:

http://www.oica.net/category/production-statistics/

Ward’s: World Motor Vehicle Data 2007. – Wards Communications, Southfield MI 2007, ISBN 0910589534

Michigan Statistical Abstract 1996. Table XIV-1 – University of Michigan, 1996 ISBN 0-472-08370-8

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