Global smartphone shipments in IDC:2022 fell 11.3% year on year, with Samsung, Apple and Xiaomi in the top three.

CTOnews.com, January 26 (Xinhua)-- Global smartphone shipments fell 18.3% year-on-year to 3.003 billion units in the fourth quarter of 2022, the biggest quarterly decline on record, according to the latest report from IDC.

CTOnews.com learned that IDC said shipments for the whole of 2022 fell 11.3% year-on-year to 1.21 billion units, the lowest annual shipment since 2013, mainly due to a sharp drop in consumer demand, inflation and economic uncertainty.

Specifically, in the fourth quarter of 2022, Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo ranked among the top five in market share, with shipments of 72.3 million (24.1%), 58.2 million (19.4%), 33.2 million (11.0%), 25.3 million (8.4%) and 22.9 million (7.6%), respectively.

According to ▲ IDC, Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo ranked among the top five in market share, with shipments of 260.9 million (21.6%), 226.4 million (18.8%), 153.1 million (12.7%), 103.3 million (8.6%) and 99 million (8.2%), respectively.