Yearly Apple App Store developer earnings 2022

In 2022, Apple paid a total of 60 billion U.S. dollars to iOS app developers, roughly the same amount recorded the year prior. Cumulative Apple App Store developer earnings amounted to 320 billion U.S. dollars as of January 2023.

Apple App Store earnings of mobile app developers from 2015 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Annual developer payout in billion U.S. dollars
2022⁴	60
2021³	60
2020²	45
2019¹	38.75
2018	34
2017	26.5
2016	20
2015	14.3

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January 2023

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2015 to 2022

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2019¹ Estimate, 2019 data was calculated by Statista on the basis of a January 2020 Apple press release: "Since the App Store launched in 2008, developers have earned over $155 billion, with a quarter of those earnings coming from the past year alone."

2020² Estimate, 2020 data data was calculated by Statista on the basis of a January 2020 Apple press release: "Since the App Store launched in 2008, developers have earned over $155 billion"; and on the basis of a January 2021 Apple press release: " [...]developers selling digital goods and services [...] have now earned more than $200 billion since the App Store launched in 2008."

2021³ Estimate, 2021 data data was calculated by Statista on the basis of a January 2021 Apple press release: "[...]developers selling digital goods and services [...] have now earned more than $200 billion since the App Store launched in 2008."; and on the basis of a January 2022 Apple press release: " [...]developers selling digital goods and services earning more than $260 billion since the App Store launched in 2008"

2022⁴ Estimate, 2022 data data was calculated by Statista on the basis of a January 2022 Apple press release: " [...]developers selling digital goods and services earning more than $260 billion since the App Store launched in 2008", and on the basis of a January 2023 Apple press release: "Developers selling digital goods and services on the App Store have earned more than $320 billion since the platform’s 2008 launch."

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