The Hyundai-Kia group sold 7.25 million vehicles in 2025
- The Hyundai-Kia group sold 7.25 million vehicles (passenger cars and light utility vehicles) worldwide in 2025 (4.11 million under the Hyundai or Genesis brand and 3.14 million under the Kia brand), representing a slight increase of 0.3% compared to 2024, which is equivalent to the volumes recorded in 2023. For the past three years, the Korean group has been relatively stagnant, its sales peak having been reached between 2014 and 2016, with nearly 8 million units sold annually. It appears that the Hyundai-Kia group is facing increasing competition from Chinese carmakers. Evidence of this is that the Korean group has lost considerable influence in China, having sold only 465,000 vehicles in that market in 2025, compared to 1 million in 2019 and 1.8 million in 2016.
- However, the Hyundai-Kia group is consolidating its third place globally, behind the Toyota and Volkswagen groups, because its following competitors (GM and Stellantis) have been experiencing sharp declines for several years.
- The Korean group avoids such setbacks thanks to a consistent and regularly updated product range policy that developped battery electric vehicles. Thus, Hyundai-Kia sold 490,000 BEVs in 2025 (7% of its total sales) compared to 400,000 in 2024, and 85,000 PHEVs compared to 95,000 in 2024. Furthermore, the carmaker sold 795,000 HEVs compared to 650,000 in 2024. These models represent 19% of the carmaker's total sales, compared to 16% in 2024 and 15% in 2023.
- The United States remains the Korean group's largest market, with 1.835 million sales in 2025, compared to 1.708 million in 2024. This is followed by Korea (1.10 million units), Europe (1.04 million), India (0.85 million) and China (0.465 million).