Domestic motorcycle sales and production
As the daily traffic volume in Metro Manila continues to grow each year, motorcycles and scooters provide an alternative to navigating the traffic situation. In 2022, there were about 8.5 million registered motorcycles, tricycles, and non-conventional or three-wheeled motorcycles in the country – with the highest number of registrations reported in Region IV-A. Meanwhile, for tricycles alone (or motorcycles with a sidecar attached), Region 3 had the highest number of license registrations.Sales in the domestic market remained constant in 2022 and 2023, reaching about 1.56 million motorcycles and scooters, just slightly higher than the sales volume in 2021. These figures represent the collective sales of the Motorcycle Development Program Participants Association (MDPPA), an association of the four major motorcycle manufacturers and assemblers in the country, namely Honda, Kawasaki Motors, Yamaha, and Suzuki. Although there are other motorcycle brands in the country, only these four companies release production and sales figures that are used to represent the entire motorcycle market. Across the different types of motorcycles, automatic transmissions or scooters generate the most sales, with unit prices averaging around 1,580 U.S. dollars in 2023.
The production volume of motorcycles and scooters, on the other hand, slightly recovered, according to year-to-date values for 2023, even surpassing the number of units produced in 2019. Despite domestic production, the Philippines remains a heavy importer of motorcycles, mostly supplied by Indonesia and China.
