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Global smartphone shipments from 2007 to 2020, by vendor (in million units)
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Description
Overall, smartphone manufacturers shipped 1.29 billion
smartphones around the world in 2020. 2020 affected the various
vendors very differently. On one end there is Xiaomi that increased
their smartphone shipments by 17.6 percent compared to 2019.
While on the other end there is Huawei that decreased their
shipments by 21.5 percent.

Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

 
The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused
significant delays across the length of the smartphone supply chain.
The impact of the pandemic on vendors caused a significant decline
in smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2020. The
overall number of smartphones shipped in Q1 2020 fell to just 275.8
million, the lowest volume since Q2 2013 . While all manufacturers
suffered a dip, Apple smartphone shipments saw the greatest
decline . However, in Q4 Apple shipped more smartphones than
any other vendor, with over 90 million shipments out of the total
smartphone shipments of 386 million shipments.

Economic factors influencing end users, the closure of physical

stores, and lack of availability also led to a drop off in the number of
smartphones sold to end users. . However, smartphone sales to
end users recovered in the last quarter of 2020 too.

Looking towards recovery    

Although shipments are down at the moment, analysts expect the

smartphone industry to recover well once the pandemic is under
control. Originally, smartphone shipments were expected to grow
1.5 percent in 2020 and 2.4 percent in 2021. However, the
predictions in the revised forecast indicate an increase of 6.3
percent in 2021.
Smartphone unit shipments worldwide 2007-2020, by vendor
Global smartphone shipments from 2007 to 2020, by vendor (in million units)

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2020
Samsung Apple Huawei OPPO Xiaomi Nokia HTC RIM LG Lenovo vivo Others
3.3 60.47 3.72 11.77 43.1
5.4 13.8 60.5 7.5 23.6 40.6
5.5 25.1 67.7 8.1 34.5 32.6
22.9 47.5 100.1 21.7 48.8 63.7
94.2 93.1 77.3 43.6 51.1 135.3
219.7 135.9 29.1 35.1 32.6 32.5 26.3 23.7 190.4
316.4 153.4 49 47.8 45.5 407.4
318.2 192.7 73.8 57.7 59.2 59.4 540.7
320.9 231.5 107 42.7 70.8 74 38 552.3
311.4 215.4 139.3 99.8 53 77.3 577.2
317.7 215.8 154.2 111.7 92.7 573.4
292.3 208.8 206 113.1 122.6 462
295.7 191 240.6 114.3 125.6 403.6
266.7 206.1 189 147.8 111.7 371