Global smartphone sales to end users 2007-2021
Smartphone end user sales - additional information
In 2019, the number of smartphones sold to consumers stood at around 1.52 billion units, a significant increase from the 680 million units sold in 2012. This means that over 19 percent of the world’s total population owned a smart device in 2019, a figure that is expected to increase to 37 percent by 2021. In 2018 smartphone penetration reached 60.5 percent in North America.
In the United States alone, sales of smartphones were projected to be worth around 77.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2019, an increase from 18 billion dollars in 2010. By 2021, it is forecast that almost 84.3 percent of all mobile users in the United States will own a smartphone, an increase from the 27 percent of mobile users in 2010.