Kia U.S Car Sales Data

This is your hub for all of the Kia sales data for the U.S market.

Kia is a part of the Hyundai Motor Group that also has the Hyundai and Genesis brands of passenger cars in its portfolio. Together they are now the world’s 4th largest car manufacturer behind Volkswagen, Toyota and General Motors.

The brand entered the highly competitive US market in 1992, when Kia Motors America was set up. The Sephia and Sportage were some of the models that helped establish the brand in the early days. It is one of the fastest growing brand in the US after seeing its market share continuously grow for the last 18 years.

Today, Kia-branded vehicles that are sold in the US ranges from subcompact to full-size models. Kia also makes compact and midsize SUVs. What makes Kia incredibly appealing to customers is because they offer a long list Kia of standard features in its cars and SUVs which are not usually offered by other car manufacturers for their vehicles.

Our Take On Kia US Sales Figures

Despite being a foreign brand and the huge number of more established brands, Kia is having tremendous success in the US car market. They have competed against many major car manufacturers and has a strong control of its market share in the US.

As you can see from the table below, from 2010 to 2019 Kia holds a 3% market share in the US as an average. You can see just how much the South Korean brand has increase its reputation, image, and sales volume from the past decade.

The Optima mid-sized sedan, Soul small car and Forte compact car are Kia’s best selling sedans in the United States and the Sorento mid-sized crossover is the brand’s best selling SUV.

Kia Monthly Sales Data

Below we have a table that shows Kia sales for the United States automotive market, but this time it is broken out by month. This is on a unit basis. This is Kia new vehicle sales in the US.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2005	17,154	20,454	25,722	27,158	25,503	27,095	26,052	23,820	23,404	20,631	20,091	18,767
2006	18,110	20,719	26,005	27,807	26,494	27,443	26,429	25,114	23,877	20,097	22,203	30,004
2007	22,524	23,512	27,567	26,007	28,494	26,288	26,690	26,874	24,087	25,185	24,177	24,068
2008	21,355	21,988	24,871	30,066	31,047	28,292	28,021	25,065	17,383	15,483	15,182	14,644
2009	22,096	22,073	24,724	25,606	26,060	26,845	29,345	40,198	21,623	22,490	17,955	21,048
2010	22,123	24,052	30,522	30,036	31,431	31,906	35,419	32,465	30,071	31,199	26,601	30,444
2011	27,789	32,806	44,179	47,074	48,212	45,047	45,504	41,188	35,609	37,690	37,007	43,390
2012	35,517	90,076	57,505	47,550	51,771	51,326	48,074	50,028	48,105	42,452	41,055	39,178
2013	36,302	41,505	49,125	47,556	52,327	50,536	49,004	52,015	38,003	39,754	45,411	33,631
2014	37,011	41,218	54,777	53,676	60,087	50,644	52,309	54,667	40,628	44,694	42,236	45,587
2015	38,299	44,030	58,771	53,282	62,433	54,137	56,311	58,897	49,820	50,044	45,553	54,241
2016	38,305	49,737	58,279	56,508	62,926	62,572	59,969	54,248	49,220	48,977	52,504	63,353
2017	35,626	42,673	49,429	53,358	58,507	56,143	56,403	53,323	52,468	44,397	44,302	43,039
2018	35,628	40,672	50,645	50,585	59,462	56,571	53,112	53,864	51,503	45,102	45,101	47,428
2019	37,376	43,406	55,814	51,385	60,062	56,801	53,405	60,730	44,619	50,007	50,504	50,504
2020	40,355	52,177	45,413	31,705	45,727	47,870	52,479	57,015	55,519	56,084	47,897	53,764
2021	39,052	48,062	66,523	57,673	80,298	68,486	70,099	54,009	52,906	52,067	45,318	43,001
2022	36,740	47,057	59,524	49,265	57,941	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Kia Sales & Growth

Below is the unit volume sales and unit growth rate for the Kia brand in the United States.

Kia Annual Sales and Market Share

Below we have a table that shows Kia sales volumes for the US automotive market. This data captures all Kia car sales. We found a great data source in Kia directly who publishes sales data for the U.S market periodically. We were able to aggregate the data into the below format.

Year	Sales	YOY Change	US Marketshare	Marketshare Change
2005	275,851	0.00	1.63	0.00
2006	294,302	6.69	1.79	8.77
2007	305,473	3.80	1.91	6.13
2008	273,397	-10.50	2.08	8.47
2009	300,063	9.75	2.90	28.11
2010	356,269	18.73	3.10	6.31
2011	485,495	36.27	3.82	19.06
2012	602,637	24.13	3.92	2.43
2013	535,169	-11.20	3.45	-13.44
2014	577,534	7.92	3.52	1.75
2015	625,818	8.36	3.60	2.20
2016	656,598	4.92	3.75	4.16
2017	589,668	-10.19	3.43	-9.52
2018	589,673	0.00	3.40	-0.65
2019	614,613	4.23	3.61	5.72
2020	586,005	-4.65	3.99	9.45
2021	677,494	15.61	4.53	11.99
2022	250,527	0.00	5.32	0.00