PCs
In-Use Reached nearly 1B in 2006
USA Accounts for Over 24% of PCs In-Use
September 24 , 2007—PCs in-use reached nearly 1B units worldwide at year-end 2006. The U.S. retains a large PC usage lead with over three times as many PCs as the second place Japan. The U.S. accounts for over 24% of all PCs in-use compared to 4.6% of worldwide population. PCs in-use growth is slowing, but the U.S. is on track to have more PCs in-use than people in five or six years. The rapid growth of mobile PCs is the major reason for current and future PC expansion. When mainframes, workstations and other computers are included, USA had 250M computers in-use while the worldwide count topped 1.03B units in 2006.
Top
15 Countries In PCs In-Use |
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| Year-end 2006 | PCs
In-Use (#M) |
Share
% |
| 1. U.S. |
240.5 |
24.15 |
| 2. Japan | 77.95 | 7.83 |
| 3. China | 74.11 | 7.44 |
| 4. Germany | 54.48 | 5.47 |
| 5. UK | 41.53 | 4.17 |
| 6. France | 35.99 | 3.61 |
| 7. South Korea | 30.62 | 3.07 |
| 8. Italy | 29.31 | 2.94 |
| 9. Russia | 26.97 | 2.71 |
| 10. Brazil | 25.99 | 2.61 |
| 11. Canada | 25.10 | 2.52 |
| 12. India | 21.17 | 2.13 |
| 13. Australia | 15.47 | 1.55 |
| 14. Mexico | 14.77 | 1.48 |
| 15. Spain | 13.42 | 1.35 |
| Top 15 Total | 727.4 | 73.00 |
| Worldwide Total | 996.1 | 100.0 |
PCs per capita in the U.S. topped 80% in 2006 and will reach 98% in 2012. 2006 will be the last year that PCs per capita will remain higher than cell phones. USA and Canada are the only countries that have more PCs in-use than cell phone subscribers. Worldwide PCs in-use surpassed 1B in early 2007.
More information is available in “Computers In-Use by Country”, a new market research report by Computer Industry Almanac. The report estimates and forecasts the number of PCs in-use for 57 countries and the six main regions of the world for 1990 through 2012. The report also has estimates of notebook PCs in-use by country.
Computer Industry Almanac publishes market research reports for the PC and Internet industries. For more information see Market Research Reports.
