In 2025, China manufactured 720 GWh of lithium-ion batteries—75.8% of global output—up from a 58% share in 2015, with the rest of the world producing

China Data Portal (2026). Retrieved from https://chinadata.live/data/battery-production-china-vs-world/. From China China’s control over global lithium-ion battery production has deepened dramatically in the past decade.

According to data compiled by BloombergNEF and SNE Research, the country manufactured 720 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of batteries in 2025, capturing 75.8% of the world’s total of 950 GWh.

Back in 2015, Chinese output was just 47 GWh and its share stood at 58%. A Decade of Unstoppable Growth Between 2015 and 2025, China’s annual production capacity surged more than 15-fold.

The compound annual growth rate over the period exceeded 31%, far outpacing the global average of about 27%. The country’s share of global output steadily climbed, peaking at 80.9% in 2022, before a slight dip to 73.

8% in 2023 and a recovery to 75.8% by 2025. That dip likely reflects a temporary slowdown in domestic electric-vehicle subsidies coupled with a ramp-up of battery gigafactories in Europe and North America.

Still, the rebound shows how quickly China can scale when policy priorities shift. The Rest of the World Falls Further Behind The "rest of world" series tells a more sobering story.

Non-Chinese production grew from 34 GWh in 2015 to 230 GWh in 2025—a healthy 6.8-fold increase. But the absolute gap between China and everyone else ballooned from just 13 GWh in 2015 to 490 GWh in 2025.

In 2015, China had a 13 GWh lead; by 2025, it was producing more than three times the combined output of all other countries.

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