mobile phone sales statistic
The chart below shows global sales of the top five mobile phone brands between 2009 and 2013.
The bar chart illustrates the number of worldwide sales for five different best-selling handphone brands: Samsung, Apple, Nokia, LG, and ZTE, from 2009 to 2013. Overall, the sales number for Samsung, Apple, and ZTE had increased throughout the period, while the sales figure for Nokia and LG had decreased.
In 2009, Nokia sold 450 million phones which is the best seller of the year, while Samsung sold 250 million phones in this period. In 2011, Nokia still kept the record as the highest sales of the year compared to other brands, which was above 400 million but was a decline compared to its own brand. Similar to 2009, the figure for Samsung increased its sales, which exceeded 300 million units. In contrast, by 2013, Nokia's phone sales dipped noticeably to earn slightly above 250 million units and Samsung's sales figures doubled to produce their highest point at 450 million phone units.
It can be seen that at the beginning of the period, from 2011 to 2013, around 25 million of Apple's mobile phone was sold in the world and it was the lowest figures. LG'brand sold more than 100 million mobile phones in the world in 2009 but there was a moderate decrease from over 100 million units to under 100 million units. The number of phone sales by Apple saw a considerable rise with the highest point around 150 million units while ZTE's sales figures increased slightly over the period.