2025 installations
354,000International Federation of Robotics · World Robotics 2026 ↗
units · annual flow
Industry · automation
Industrial robots in China
Read annual installations, operational stock, global installation share and domestic supplier share separately. They use different units and denominators and cannot be added or averaged into one “robot competitiveness index”. The public 2025 China release does not give an exact operational-stock figure, so that metric remains current through 2024.
2025 global installation share
59.0%
of global annual installations
2024 operational stock
2,027,000
units · latest exact public year-end stock
2025 domestic supplier share
55.0%
of installations in China
Installations and stock
Installations through 2025; operational stock through 2024
Installations are the annual deployment flow; operational stock is the cumulative number still operating at year end. IFR’s public 2025 China release does not publish an exact operational-stock figure, so the stock chart does not invent a 2025 bar.
Source: International Federation of Robotics · World Robotics 2026 ↗ · International Federation of Robotics · earlier China releases ↗ · IFR World Robotics China releases; installations are annual flow and operational robots are year-end stock; no exact 2025 China stock is published in the public releasechinainfigures.com
Two different shares
China took 59% of global installations; domestic suppliers held 55% in China
The 59% figure asks how many of the world’s new installations were deployed in China. The 55% figure asks how many installations in China were supplied by Chinese manufacturers. The denominators differ.
Source: International Federation of Robotics · World Robotics 2026 ↗ · International Federation of Robotics · earlier China releases ↗ · Global installation share and domestic supplier share use different denominators and must not be averagedchinainfigures.com
Customer industries in 2025
Electrical/electronics, automotive and metal/machinery remained the leading industries
The three industries installed 254,000 units, about 71.8% of China’s 2025 total. Electrical/electronics rose 16%, automotive 38%, and metal/machinery 44%.
Source: International Federation of Robotics · World Robotics 2026 ↗ · IFR China customer-industry installations for 2025; press-release values are rounded to the nearest hundred and unlisted industries are not shownchinainfigures.com
Accessible data table
Eleven formal observations for 2023–2025
| Year | Metric | Type | Value | Unit | Reported YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Annual industrial robot installations | Annual flow | 276,288 | units | -5.0% |
| 2023 | Operational stock | Year-end stock | 1,755,132 | units | +17.0% |
| 2023 | Share of global annual installations | Global installation share | 51.0 | % | — |
| 2023 | Domestic suppliers’ share of China installations | Domestic supplier share | 47.0 | % | — |
| 2024 | Annual industrial robot installations | Annual flow | 295,000 | units | +7.0% |
| 2024 | Operational stock | Year-end stock | 2,027,000 | units | — |
| 2024 | Share of global annual installations | Global installation share | 54.0 | % | — |
| 2024 | Domestic suppliers’ share of China installations | Domestic supplier share | 57.0 | % | — |
| 2025 | Annual industrial robot installations | Annual flow | 354,000 | units | +20.0% |
| 2025 | Share of global annual installations | Global installation share | 59.0 | % | — |
| 2025 | Domestic suppliers’ share of China installations | Domestic supplier share | 55.0 | % | — |
Flow versus stock
Do not add 354,000 to 2.027 million
The 354,000 figure is the 2025 installation flow. The 2.027 million figure is the 2024 year-end operational stock. They differ in both reference year and statistical concept.
Different denominators
The 59% is not a localisation rate
The 59% is China’s share of global annual installations. The 55% is the share of China-market installations supplied by domestic manufacturers.
Industrial robots only
Service robots are excluded
IFR industrial robots follow the ISO definition and are mainly used in factory automation. Logistics, medical, household and other service robots are outside this indicator.
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Industrial robot data updated through 2025
Added IFR World Robotics 2026 China data for 2025 installations, global deployment share, domestic supplier share and leading customer industries. The public China release does not publish an exact 2025 operational-stock value, so stock remains current through 2024.
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