Viet Nam overtook China as Morocco's top smartphone supplier
Morocco's smartphone imports by supplier, share of value, as reported by Morocco, 2022, 2024 and 2025.
- 1. Egypt is set to outgrow Japan in 2027, then Russia
- 2. In 2025, Suez Canal traffic was under half its record
- 3. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
- 4. Egypt is the world's biggest wheat buyer
- 5. Saudi Arabia has more desalination capacity than the entire US
- 6. Three in four UAE residents are international migrants
- 7. Only America draws more new foreign projects than the UAE
- 8. Algeria outspends all of sub-Saharan Africa on its military
- 9. Women in MENA now outpace men at university
- 10. Dubai's airport handles more international travellers than Heathrow
- 11. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
- 12. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
- 13. Egypt now owes Russia more than any other government
- 14. Two-thirds of young Jordanian women in the workforce are jobless
- 15. Baghdad's mobile internet overtook Erbil's
- 16. Morocco climbed to second in world fertiliser exports
- 17. Algiers now has North Africa's fastest home internet
- 18. Saudi imports from China now top the Group of Seven
- 19. Syria has lost more stored water than drought-famous Iran
- 20. Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does
- 21. More young Tunisian men than women neither work nor study
- 22. Egypt tripled its ATMs per adult in ten years
- 23. Saudi Arabia's battery imports grew 46-fold since 2019
- 24. Viet Nam overtook China as Morocco's top smartphone supplier
of Morocco's smartphone imports came from Viet Nam in 2025 ($206 M), up from 22.7% in 2022.
China's share in 2025, down from 65.6%: its sales to Morocco fell from $302 M to $183 M.
Morocco's smartphone imports in 2025, vs $461 M in 2022: the buyers stayed, the factory country moved.
the numbers & method
| Viet Nam (M) | China (M) | Other (M) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 105 | 302 | 54 |
| 2024 | 140 | 220 | 27 |
| 2025 | 206 | 183 | 9 |
Claim types Fact · Interpretation
UN Statistics Division, UN Comtrade (HS, annual), commodity 851713 (smartphones; an HS 2022 code, so no comparison before 2022), imports reported by Morocco from World, Viet Nam (704), China (156) and others, US$ (CIF, as reported by the importer), read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (un-comtrade; GUIDELINES §4.11); 2025 values re-read live on the UN Comtrade public API (World 398,833,656; Viet Nam 206,297,107; China 183,215,312). US$ million, World / Viet Nam / China / other: 2022 460.70 / 104.73 / 302.19 / 53.78; 2024 387.74 / 140.19 / 220.49 / 27.06; 2025 398.83 / 206.30 / 183.22 / 9.32. 'Other' = World minus Viet Nam and China (largest: India 52.19 M in 2022, 20.08 M in 2024, 2.64 M in 2025; Egypt 4.94 M in 2025). 2023 is not in the loaded data and is left out. Shares are progrss calculations. Partner is the country of origin as recorded by Morocco's customs; it says where phones were made, not which brand made them.
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