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More than a billion PCs use: Gartner

MARKET research group Gartner says the industry has passed a significant milestone: There are now more than one million personal computers installed worldwide.

And with the PC market growing at 12 per cent annually, Gartner says there will be more than 2 billion PCs installed by early 2014.

Gartner defines “installed” as the number of PCs that are in active use, rather than the number that have been shipped.

The world’s installed base of PCs remains heavily concentrated in mature markets, Gartner said.

However, emerging markets will claim an increasingly larger share of the world’s installed base going forward as the rapidly rising PC penetration in emerging markets continues to drive strong double-digit PC growth.

“Mature markets such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan currently account for 58 percent of the world’s installed PCs, but these markets only account for 15 percent of the world’s population,” said Gartner research director George Shiffler.

“There’s a startling difference in per capita PC penetration between mature and emerging markets. Of course, much of this difference reflects the disparity in average living standards between mature and emerging markets. But, rapid economic development across emerging markets is not only narrowing the disparity in average living standards, it's closing the difference in per capita PC penetration between mature and emerging markets.”

The global PC installed base is constantly being churned as PC users replace their used machines with new ones. Some retired PCs find their way back into the installed base to second owners through various channels, some are broken up and recycled, but others are simply dumped directly into landfill.

“We forecast just over 180 million PCs — approximately 16 percent of the existing installed base — will be replaced this year,” said Meike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner.