Vehicles sales

In the reporting period, the Volkswagen Group’s global unit sales, defined as the Automotive Division’s unit sales, remained at the prior-year level in a challenging market, at 9,022,111 (9,036,653) units (including the equity-accounted companies in China). Outside Germany, sales volume declined by 0.5% to 7,801,948 vehicles, due mainly to fewer vehicles being sold in China and the United States. The Volkswagen Group’s unit sales excluding the equity-accounted companies in China amounted to 6,433,789 (6,294,998) vehicles and were therefore up by 2.2% on the previous year. Spain, India and Brazil in particular recorded growth. In Germany, unit sales increased by 2.1% year-on-year. The proportion of the Group’s total unit sales attributable to Germany increased to 13.5 (13.2)%.