Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales By Region
Posted: December 16th, 2009.
Asia Pacific – India and China specifically have been driving the telecom market for quite some time now. Nearly 50% of all mobile phone sales has come from Asia-Pacific in the recent past. Here is how the sale number stack up against the different regions for 2008, 2009 and 2010 (estimated).
| REGION | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Asia/Pacific | 453M | 480M | 547M |
| East Europe | 96M | 81M | 85M |
| Japan | 41M | 35M | 35M |
| Latin America | 142M | 120M | 127M |
| Middle East/Africa | 133M | 129M | 140M |
| North America | 182M | 183M | 190M |
| West Europe | 174M | 187M | 198M |
| Global | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.3B |
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