Now that the iPhone is available everywhere and has become so popular with so many people, you may be wondering: How many iPhones have been sold worldwide so far?
How Many iPhones Have Been Sold Worldwide [2022]
When he introduced the original iPhone, Steve Jobs said that Apple's goal for the first year of the iPhone was to capture 1% of the global mobile phone market. The company achieved that goal and now has somewhere between 20% and 40% of the market, depending on which country you look at.
Total market share isn’t the only important measure of success, either. Apple is particularly interested in the high-end, profitable, expensive smartphone market. In that space, the company has been much more successful. Apple earned almost 80% of global smartphone profits in 2016. That means most other smartphone makers were essentially losing money on every phone they sold!
The total sales listed below include all iPhone models (starting with the original through iPhone XS and XR) and are based on Apple’s initial announcements. As a result, these numbers are approximate.
