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Market share of personal computer vendors

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The annual worldwide market share of personal computer vendors includes desktop computers, laptop computers, and netbooks but excludes mobile devices, such as tablet computers that do not fall under the category of 2-in-1 PCs. The global market leader has been Lenovo in every year since 2013, followed by HP and Dell. Previously, Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000, while HP and Dell shared market leadership in the 2000s.

For data about PC vendors' market shares in laptop computers specifically, see Laptop#Historic market share.

Current top vendors market share (2025)

	Rank		Manufacturer
1	Lenovo	China	27.2%
2	HP	USA	21.3%
3	Dell	USA	15.3%
4	Apple	USA	9.2%
5	Asus	Taiwan	6.9%
6	Acer	Taiwan	6.3%
-	other	various	13.9%

Historical vendors market share

2020s

Rank	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	Lenovo	24.9	Lenovo	24.4	Lenovo
2	HP	21.2	HP	21.7	HP
3	Dell	16.4	Dell	17.4	Dell
4	Apple	8.2	Apple	7.9	Apple
5	Asus	6.0	Acer	7.1	Asus
6	Acer	5.9	Asus	6.3	Acer
Others		22.5		15.1

2010s

Rank	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
1	HP	17.9	HP	16.6	HP	16.1	Lenovo	16.9	Lenovo	18.8
2	Acer	13.9	Lenovo	12.5	Lenovo	14.9	HP	16.2	HP	17.5
3	Dell	12.0	Dell	11.7	Dell	10.7	Dell	11.6	Dell	12.8
4	Lenovo	10.9	Acer	10.8	Acer	10.2	Acer	8.0	Acer	7.9
5	Asus	5.4	Asus	5.7	Asus	6.9	Asus	6.6	Asus	7.2
Others		40.0		42.8		41.2		40.7		35.7

2000s

Rank	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
1	Compaq	12.8	HP	18.4	HP	14.2	Dell	14.9	Dell	16.4
2	Dell	10.8	Dell	13.2	Dell	13.2	HP	14.6	HP	14.6
3	HP	7.6	IBM	6.4	IBM	5.2	IBM	5.3	Lenovo	6.8
4	IBM	6.8	NEC	3.8	Fujitsu	3.8	Fujitsu	3.7	Fujitsu	3.8
5	NEC	4.3	Toshiba	2.8	Toshiba	2.8	Acer	2.9	Acer	3.4
Others		57.7		55.4		60.9		58.6		55.1

1990s

Rank	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
1	IBM	10.8	Compaq	10.0	Compaq	10.0	Compaq
2	Apple	9.4	Apple	8.3	IBM	8.0	IBM
3	Compaq	8.1	IBM	8.2	Apple	7.8	Packard Bell NEC
4			Packard Bell	5.2	Packard Bell	5.3	Apple
5			NEC	4.1	NEC	4.8	HP
Others				64.3		64.0

Rank	1990	1991	1992	1993
1	IBM	IBM	16.3	IBM
2	Apple	Apple	11.2	Apple
3	NEC	NEC	6.4	Compaq
4	Compaq	Compaq	6.0	NEC
5	Toshiba	-	-	Dell
Others	-	-	-

Toshiba personal computer division was sold to Sharp in 2019, now Dynabook.
IBM sold its personal computer business to Lenovo in 2005, and its x86 server division in 2014.
Compaq was acquired by HP in 2002.
Fujitsu figures include Fujitsu Siemens.
Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the Intel x86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs.
Figures subject to revision in later data releases.

Unit sales

Worldwide (1994–2024)

Year	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Units (M)	Growth (pct.)
47.9	59.7	70.9	80.6	92.9	113.5	134.7*	128.1	132.4	168.9	189.0	218.5	239.4	271.2	302.2	305.9
23.3	24.7	17.8	13.7	15.3	22.2	18.7*	-4.9	3.4	27.6	11.9	15.6	9.6	13.3	11.4	1.2

Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	Units (M)	Growth (pct.)
351	352.8	352.7	316	315.9	287.7	269.7	262.5	259.4	262.6	275	339.8	286.2	241.8	245.4
14.7	0.5	-0.0	-10.4	-0.2	-8.9	-6.3	-2.7	-1.3	0.6	4.8	9.9	-16.2	-14.8	1.3

Sales volume worldwide grew rapidly in the late 1990s but declined briefly around the early 2000s recession. Sales increased again for the rest of the decade though more slowly during the late 2000s recession. After substantial growth in 2010, sales volume started declining in 2012 which continued for seven consecutive years until 2019. A consumer-led spike in PC sales occurred in 2020 and 2021 as a result of stay-at-home orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(*) Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the Intel x86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs.

Worldwide (1975–1995)

Year	Annual sales	IBM PC compatible	Apple II	Macintosh	Atari 8-bit	Atari ST	Commodore 64	Amiga	PET	Altair	TRS-80	NeXT
5,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	0	0
46,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6,000	0	0	40,000
150,000	0	600	0	0	0	0	0	4,000	10,000	100,000	0	50,000
258,000	0	7,600	0	0	0	0	0	30,000	4,000	150,000	0	100,000
580,000	0	35,000	0	100,000	0	0	0	45,000	0	200,000	0	200,000
724,000	0	78,000	0	200,000	0	0	0	90,000	0	290,000	0	424,000
1,400,000	35,000	210,000	0	300,000	0	0	0	40,000	0	250,000	0	605,000
2,800,000	240,000	279,000	0	600,000	0	200,000	0	10,000	0	300,000	0	1,181,000
4,920,000	1,300,000	420,000	0	500,000	0	2,000,000	0	0	0	200,000	0	500,000
6,322,000	2,000,000	1,000,000	372,000	200,000	0	2,500,000	0	0	0	50,000	0	200,000
7,610,000	3,700,000	900,000	200,000	100,000	100,000	2,500,000	100,000	0	0	10,000	0	0
9,000,000	5,020,000	700,000	380,000	0	200,000	2,500,000	200,000	0	0	0	0	0
9,200,000	5,950,000	500,000	550,000	0	400,000	1,500,000	300,000	0	0	0	0	0
15,000,000	11,900,000	200,000	900,000	0	350,000	1,250,000	400,000	0	0	0	12,000	0
21,000,000	17,550,000	200,000	1,100,000	0	300,000	1,250,000	600,000	0	0	0	12,000	0
20,000,000	16,838,000	100,000	1,300,000	0	300,000	700,000	750,000	0	0	0	12,000	0
18,750,000	14,399,000	100,000	2,100,000	0	300,000	800,000	1,035,000	0	0	0	16,000	0
20,800,000	18,300,000	100,000	2,500,000	0	120,000	300,000	390,000	0	0	0	10,000	0
31,050,000	27,750,000	30,000	3,300,000	0	30,000	175,000	155,000	0	0	0	5	0
41,000,000	37,200,000	0	3,800,000	0	0	0	50,000	0	0	0	0	0
50,000,000	45,880,000	0	4,120,000	0	0	0	42,000	0	0	0	0	0

Japan

Year	Annual sales (units sold)	NEC	Fujitsu	Sharp	MSX	last1=Juliussen	first1=Egil	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gxVNAQAAIAAJ	title=The Computer Industry Almanac 1991	last2=Juliussen	first2=Karen	publisher=Pearson P T R	year=1990	isbn=978-0-13-155748-2	pages=10-47, 10-48}}	16-bit	Annual	Share	Units	Share	Units	Share
719,000	166,000	,000	last1=Methe	first1=David	last2=Mitchell	first2=Will	last3=Miyabe	first3=Junichiro	last4=Toyama	first4=Ryoko	date=January 1998	title=Overcoming a Standard Bearer: Challenges to NEC's Personal Computer in Japan	url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5160396	journal=Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)	page=35	via=ResearchGate}}	,000			13%	,000	500,000
917,000	279,000	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ch1NAQAAIAAJ	title=Japan Electronics Almanac	date=1990	publisher=Dempa Publications	page=145	quote=The domestic shipment value of personal computers in fiscal 1988 totaled (up 23 percent over fiscal 1987); the domestic shipment volume was 1,375,000 (up 14 percent over 1987). The value of domestic shipments has recorded annual growth. Conversely, the volume of domestic shipments of personal computers stabilized at the 1,200,000-nit mark for four years beginning in fiscal 1984. However, this volume began to increase rapidly in fiscal 1988.}}	39%	,000	11%	,000	date=1985	title=ElectronicsWeek	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMMpAQAAMAAJ	magazine=ElectronicsWeek	publisher=McGraw-Hill	volume=58	issue=13–23	page=41	quote=The home computer market in Japan consumed 1.1 million machines last year and is growing modestly in 1985, but it remains essentially a game market. (...) The two largest producers of home computers in Japan—NEC Corp., which claims a 40% market share, and Sharp Corp., which claims 20%—do not use the MSX (Microsoft Extended Basic) system that Microsoft Corp. developed and has licensed to 18 other Japanese companies. Total MSX sales last year are estimated at 350,000 units. But NEC's best-selling 8801-MII is used mostly by university students and small businesses for bookkeeping or document filing; MSX users are overwhelmingly 15 years of age or younger—game fanatics.}}	,000
789,000	398,000	1,200,000	36%	,000			9%	,000
685,000	551,000		41%	,000	9%	,000
426,000	760,000		45%	,000	10%	,000			url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ch1NAQAAIAAJ	title=Japan Electronics Almanac	date=1990	publisher=Dempa Publications	pages=146	quote=The volume of domestic shipments of the MSX remained at the 150,000 mark, for a marked decline of 56 percent from 1987.}}
253,000	973,000	1,375,000	last1=Dedrick	first1=Jason	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNHhBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83	title=Asia's Computer Challenge: Threat or Opportunity for the United States and the World?	last2=Kraemer	first2=Kenneth L.	date=1998-08-20	publisher=Oxford University Press	isbn=978-0-19-028398-8	pages=83}}	,000	14%	,000			150,000
		last=Ozsomer	first=Aysegul	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h7NoO4fITxAC	title=A Dynamic Analysis of Entry Rates in the Global Personal Computer Industry	date=1993	publisher=Michigan State University (Department of Marketing and Logistics)	pages=36	chapter=The Japanese Personal Computer Market	quote=Traditionally, dominated by Japanese vendors, the market had reached 2.5 million units in 1989, and 3.3 million units in 1991 (Dataquest Inc.)}}	41%		13%	,000
		url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kl1HAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-SA26-PA17	title=U.S. Industrial Outlook	date=1993	publisher=Business and Defense Services Administration	page=26-17}}	50%		12%	,000
		3,300,000	52%		12%	,000
		url=	title=U.S. Industrial Outlook	date=1994	publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industrial Economics	page=26-19	chapter=Japan	chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7W5Pc4L8r8C&pg=SA26-PA19}}	52%		12%
		2,300,000	49%		7%
			43%		9%
			40%		19%
			33%		23%

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