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Infotech Industry Statistics


A complete analysis of the InfoTech industry, including trends, profiles of the 500 most successful InfoTech firms and the following statistics, is available in the InfoTech Industry Almanac.

InfoTech Industry Overview
         
  Amount Unit Date Source
Global Investment in Information Technology (Est) $2.0 tril. US$ 2004 IDC
U.S. Spending on Information Technology $484.3 bil. US$ 2004 Dept. of Commerce
Projected Worldwide Sales of PC Hardware $386.6 bil. US$ 2005 IDC
Worldwide PC Shipments 177.5 mil. units 2004 IDC
Worldwide Server Shipments 5.7 mil. units 2004 IDC
Worldwide Server Revenues $53.7 bil. US$ 2005 IDC
Worldwide Storage Revenues $27.3 bil. US$ 2005 IDC
Worldwide Router Sales in 2004 (f) $7.1 bil. US$ 2004 Dell'Oro Group
Spending on Network Equipment, U.S. $15.8 bil. US$ 2004 TIA
Worldwide Software Revenue $189.0 bil. US$ 2004 Gartner
Worldwide Security Software Spending $4.9 bil. US$ 2004 Gartner
Worldwide Database Software Market $11.8 bil. US$ 2004 Gartner
U.S. Video Game Console Software Sales $5.2 bil. US$ 2004 NPD Funworld
U.S. Computer Games Sales $1.1 bil. US$ 2004 NPD Funworld
U.S. Portable Software Sales $1.0 bil. US$ 2004 NPD Funworld
Number of Computer and Video Games Sold, U.S. 248 mil. 2004 NPD Funworld
Global Business Software Revenues (Est.) $29.0 bil. US$ 2004 PRE
Worldwide RFID Tag Revenues 0.3 bil. US$ 2004 In-Stat
Worldwide Virtual Machine Market $327.0 mil. US$ 2004 IDC
Number of Wireless Subscribers, U.S. 169.5 mil. Jun-04 CTIA
Number of Wireless Modems Shipped Worldwide 2.5 mil. 2004 In-Stat
Total North American Cable Modem Subscribers 20.4 mil. Jun-04 CDN
Est. Number of Households with Cable Telephony Services 11 mil. 2004 In-Stat
Total Value of U.S. Computer Shipments 104.5 bil. US$ 2004 DC
Value of Computer Exports 27.5 bil. US$ 2004 DC
Value of Computer Imports 73.4 bil. US$ 2004 DC
Number of High Speed Internet Lines in the U.S. 32.5 mil. Jun-04 FCC
U.S. Industry Revenues, 2004:        
Data Processing Services 51.3 bil. US$ 2004 PRE
Software Publishing 92.1 bil. US$ 2004 PRE
Wired Telecommunications Carriers 208.0 bil. US$ 2004 PRE
Wireless Telecom. Carriers (Except Satellite) 119.1 bil. US$ 2004 PRE
Semiconductor Industry Revenues 211.4 bil. US$ 2004 In-Stat
IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Services Revenues 2.9 bil. US$ 2004 In-Stat
         
PRE = Plunkett Research estimate. CDN = www.cabledigitalnews.com
CTIA = Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association BLS = U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
FCC = Federal Communications Commission ITA = International Trade Administration
TIA = Telecommunications Industry Association IDC = International Data Corp.

 

 

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