Decreased 300 million.. China's sales of smartphones will decline in 2022

China's smartphone sales fell 13 percent year on year in 2022, marking the sector's biggest drop in a decade as consumers exercised caution in spending.

The total number of devices shipped was 286 million, down from 329 million a year earlier.

According to a market research report by "IDC", total sales for 2022 were the lowest since 2013.

  2022 was also the first year since then that annual sales have fallen below 300 million.

Vivo bestseller

Android phone maker "Vivo" was the best-selling brand throughout the year, with a market share of 18.6 percent.

Its total shipments fell 25.1 percent year on year.

Second place

"Honor" ranked second among the best-selling brands, and its shipments increased by more than 34 percent, but this was the result of a lower baseline.

Third place

Apple ranked third in 2022.

The strict anti-Covid controls in China weighed on the economy, which fell last year to one of its worst levels in nearly half a century.

   The decline in smartphone sales in China is in line with the performance of the sector around the world. 

Worldwide smartphone shipments reached 1.2 billion, the lowest level since 2013, equivalent to an annual decline of more than 11 percent.