Number of smartphone users in Germany 2009-2030

Figures until July 2015 were retrieved from publications on comScore and refer to users 13 years of age and older.
From 2016, figures were retrieved from publications by Bitcom Research.
From 2019 onwards figures are based on the Verbrauchs- und Medienanalyse (VuMA) and refer to people who own a smartphone or mobile phone able to connect to the internet. Numbers are therefore not completely comparable.

From 2019 to 2020, the data refers to people who own an internet-enabled smartphone or cell phone. From 2021, the data refers to people who own a smartphone/cell phone in the household. From 2022, the data comes from Statista. The data are therefore not easily comparable.

The following information applies to the Statista data: The shown forecasts represent a blend of multiple input datasets from both internal (primary) and external (secondary) sources. Whereas primary data are generated via Statista's own surveys like the Global Consumer Survey, secondary input datasets are mostly sourced from international institutions (such as the IMF, the World Bank or the United Nations), national statistical offices, trade associations and from the trade press. These datasets are often incomplete as there are gaps between survey years or no or no reliable information might be available for a specific indicator in a specific country or region. Data for missing years are interpolated by various statistical means, such as linear or exponential interpolation or cubic splines. Data for missing countries or regions are imputed by considering known information from other countries or regions that are found to be similar by cluster analyses like k-means or similar procedures.
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Because of the high degree of processing no specific external source can be named for each data point and all data for historical years (usually until the last finished year before the current one) have to be considered Statista estimates. Future years are mostly Statista projections These projections or forecasts are conducted by regression analyses, exponential trend smoothing (ETS) or similar techniques and extrapolate the found historical trend.