Worldwide shipments of devices will total 2.16 billion units in 2020, an increase of 0.9 percent from 2019, according to data from Gartner. In 2019, global shipments of devices totaled 2.15 billion units. This modest recovery of the market will be boosted by the take-up 5G mobile phones, whose market share will lift to 43 percent in 2022 from 12 percent this year. The worldwide mobile phone market is on course to grow by 1.7 percent in 2020, the market researcher predicts.
Shipments of smartphones were weak in 2019, recording a 2 percent decline year over year, but are expected to grow in 2020, particularly in Greater China and emerging markets in Asia/Pacific.
The researchers estimate that 5G models will account for 12 percent of mobile phone shipments in 2020, and that this will reach 43 percent by 2022.
Global PC market to decline in 2020 and beyond
Even after experiencing a return to growth in 2019, PC shipments are still forecast to decline in 2020 and beyond. Through 2020, this market will be affected by the end of the migration to Windows 10.
After three years of growth in the professional PC market, replacement levels will decrease. However, there will be opportunities for professional PC replacements through 2020. The Chinese government launched the locally manufactured “secure and reliable PC” initiative, which stalled in 2019, but such initiatives should gain momentum in 2020.
In addition, there is a “long tail” of upgrades from small and midsize businesses across emerging regions as they react to Microsoft’s withdrawal of support for Windows 7 on 14 January 2020. Researchers estimate that one billion PCs will have migrated to Windows 10 through 2020 — around 80 percent of all PCs in use.
