Review of the world's largest car markets in May: a change of leader and Russia is in 12th place

In the global car market in May of 2019, the leader was changed, this is evidenced by statistics collected by the AUTOSTAT analytic agency. In the USA, 1.59 million new cars were sold in the last month, which corresponds to the level of May of 2018 (-0.1%). At the same time, sales in China again dropped significantly. This time, they fell by 17.4% to 1.56 million units, which allowed United States to come out on top.

The third place is occupied by Germany, where sales grew by 9% to 333 thousand cars. In fourth place, despite a 20% drop, India remained (239 thousand units). The fifth place is occupied by Brazil, where the market grew by 20.3% up to 234 thousand cars.

The second five countries of the global car market looks like this: Japan (213 thousand units; + 5.2%; excluding micro cars), Canada (203 thousand units; -6.1%), Italy (197 thousand units; -1.2%), France (194 thousand units; + 1.2%) and Great Britain (184 thousand units; -4.6%).

Russia with sales of 138 thousand units and a fall by 6.7% was in 12th place. Ahead of us, South Korea ranked 11th with May sales of 150,000 cars (-4.5%). Spain lags behind quite a bit, with the result of 130 thousand sold units, where the car market also showed a slight drop (-4.6%).