Nissan Worldwide Production By Nation : 2012

The Successful Electric Leaf Model

Coming in 5th in the world is Nissan. It kept the same 6.1% world share for 2012 over 2011, despite problems in China all Japanese brands experienced. The number of cars made dropped back in China to below a quarter. Japanese made Nissans increased despite a slight drop in total Nissan production.

Mexico and the USA did well as Nissan does well in the NAFTA region. Taiwan, India and Indonesia all did well from Asia, with Nissan UK continuing its upward trend.

11	12		2011	Shr	2012	Shr
1	1	China	1,237,468	27.0%	1,161,144	23.9%
2	2	Japan	1,061,184	23.2%	1,112,814	22.9%
3	3	Mexico	607,087	13.3%	683,661	14.1%
4	4	USA	562,754	12.3%	644,695	13.3%
5	5	UK	480,517	10.5%	510,572	10.5%
6	6	Thaïland	184,503	4.0%	224,151	4.6%
8	7	India	126,759	2.8%	181,764	3.7%
7	8	Spain	154,752	3.4%	143,165	2.9%
11	9	Indonesia	42,462	0.9%	63,249	1.3%
9	10	Sth Africa	46,181	1.0%	52,649	1.1%
10	11	Taïwan	43,304	0.9%	36,358	0.7%
12	12	Brazil	32,367	0.7%	32,136	0.7%
	13	Egypt	-		7,031	0.1%
13	14	Other	524	0.0%	539	0.0%
		Tot Nissan	4,579,862	6.1%	4,853,928	6.1%

Data source: OICA