How many smartphones are sold worldwide each year?
Technology easy Data from 2024
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The answer
1,200,000,000 smartphones
Roughly 1.2B.
Around 1.2 billion smartphones ship each year, meaning roughly one new phone for every seven people on the planet annually. Shipments peaked near 1.5 billion in 2016 and have drifted down as replacement cycles stretched past three years. Samsung and Apple together take about a third of units.
Where this number comes from
| Source | IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | smartphones |
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