World’s Largest Mobile Phone Brands by Units Sold | 1990–2025

Watch how the world’s largest mobile phone brands changed from 1990 to 2025. This animated bar chart race tracks annual phone sales/shipments across the full mobile-phone era, from early leaders such as Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens to modern giants including Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Huawei and Transsion. The dataset includes both feature phones and smartphones, making it possible to follow the complete history of the global mobile phone market. Data Sources: Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Apple and other company reports; Gartner; IDC; Strategy Analytics; Counterpoint Research; Canalys; ITU; historical telecom industry sources. Dataset: Worldwide annual mobile phone sales/shipments by brand Year Coverage: 1990–2025 Unit: Individual mobile phones sold/shipped Notes: Some older historical figures are reconstructed from the best available company reports, industry trackers and market-share evidence. Later years rely mainly on major industry tracking firms and company disclosures. Transparency Note: A limited number of early historical values and some emerging-brand values are estimates or reconstructions where complete annual vendor data was unavailable. These are used to provide the best available historical picture and are not intended to imply perfect precision. If you enjoy data visualizations, rankings and historical comparisons, subscribe to Data Rank Hub for more bar chart race videos.