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Smartphone users worldwide 2016-2021
Number of smartphone users worldwide from 2016 to 2021 (in billions)
by Arne Holst,
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Jul 26, 2019
How many people have smartphones worldwide?
The number of smartphone users worldwide today surpasses three billion and is forecast to further grow by several hundred million in the next few years. China, India, and the United States are the countries with the highest number of smartphone users, with each country easily surpassing the 100 million user mark.Smartphone unit sales levelling off
In the past five years, about 1.4 billion smartphones were sold worldwide annually, reflecting stagnation in the smartphone market during the last few years. The smartphone market still has high growth potential though, as the smartphone penetration rate is still lower than 70 percent in many highly populated countries, in particular China and India. The revenue of the global smartphone market continued to increase over the last few years, despite stagnating unit sales - due to a growing average selling price of smartphones.
Leading smartphone vendors
The leading smartphone vendors today are Samsung, Apple, and Huawei. Taken together the three technology companies account for about half of all smartphone shipments worldwide. All three shipped at least 200 million smartphones in 2018, with Samsung leading the way with more than 290 million smartphone unit shipments.
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by Arne Holst,
last edited
Jul 26, 2019
How many people have smartphones worldwide?
The number of smartphone users worldwide today surpasses three billion and is forecast to further grow by several hundred million in the next few years. China, India, and the United States are the countries with the highest number of smartphone users, with each country easily surpassing the 100 million user mark.Smartphone unit sales levelling off
In the past five years, about 1.4 billion smartphones were sold worldwide annually, reflecting stagnation in the smartphone market during the last few years. The smartphone market still has high growth potential though, as the smartphone penetration rate is still lower than 70 percent in many highly populated countries, in particular China and India. The revenue of the global smartphone market continued to increase over the last few years, despite stagnating unit sales - due to a growing average selling price of smartphones.
Leading smartphone vendors
The leading smartphone vendors today are Samsung, Apple, and Huawei. Taken together the three technology companies account for about half of all smartphone shipments worldwide. All three shipped at least 200 million smartphones in 2018, with Samsung leading the way with more than 290 million smartphone unit shipments.
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- Global smartphone shipments forecast from 2010 to 2022 (in million units)
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- Number of smartphones sold to end users worldwide from 2007 to 2020 (in million units)
- Global revenue from smartphone sales from 2013 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Smartphone revenues worldwide from 2011 to 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Global smartphone shipments from 2007 to 2018, by vendor (in million units)
- Share of smartphone shipments worldwide from 2012 to 2018, by vendor
- Smartphone shipments by vendor worldwide from 4th quarter 2009 to 2nd quarter 2019 (in million units)
- Global market share held by leading smartphone vendors from 4th quarter 2009 to 2nd quarter 2019
- Manufacturers/brands' share of smartphone production volume (units) worldwide from 2015 to 2018
- Global smartphone shipments by model in the first quarter of 2018 (in millions)
- Smartphone unit shipments worldwide by model in 1st quarter 2019 (in million units)
- Global average selling price (ASP) of smartphones from 2016 to 2021 (in U.S. dollars)
- Average selling price (ASP) of Android smartphones worldwide in 2017 and 2018 (in U.S. dollars)
- Average price of smartphones in the United States from 2018 to 2023 (in U.S. dollars), by segment*
- Smartphone unit shipments by price category worldwide from 2012 to 2022 (in millions)
- Manufacturing costs for Samsung Galaxy S9+ (64 GB) by component in 2018 (in U.S. dollars)
- Manufacturing costs for iPhone Xs Max (64 GB) in 2018, by component (in U.S. dollars)
- Share of smartphone shipments worldwide by operating system from 2014 to 2023
- Global smartphone sales to end users from 1st quarter 2009 to 2nd quarter 2018, by operating system (in million units)
- Global market share held by the leading smartphone operating systems in sales to end users from 1st quarter 2009 to 2nd quarter 2018
- Mobile operating systems' market share worldwide from January 2012 to July 2019
- Android OS market share of smartphone sales to end users from 2009 to 2018
- Android operating system share worldwide by OS version from 2013 to 2019*
- Mobile Android operating system market share by version worldwide from January 2018 to July 2019*
- Forecast number of mobile users worldwide from 2019 to 2023 (in billions)
- Number of smartphone users worldwide from 2016 to 2021 (in billions)
- Mobile data traffic per smartphone worldwide from 2014 to 2024 (in GB/month)
- Mobile internet traffic as percentage of total web traffic as of March 2019, by country
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- Most popular global mobile messenger apps as of July 2019, based on number of monthly active users (in millions)
- Share of mobile phone users worldwide who owned and used a smartphone from 2014 to 2019
- Number of smartphone users in Vietnam from 2015 to 2022 (in millions)*
- Smartphone users in China in 2012, by age group
- Methods of mobile reading used by smart phone users in China in 2011
- Smartphone penetration rate as share of the population in South Africa from 2015 to 2023*
- Number of smartphone users in Saudi Arabia from 2017 to 2023 (in millions)*
- Share of mobile phone users that use a smartphone in Canada from 2014 to 2019
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