India went from 2% to 42% of America's smartphone imports
Share of US smartphone imports by value (HS 851713), by country of origin, 2022–2025, as reported by the US.
- 1. China leads research in 57 of 64 critical technologies
- 2. China's international patent filings grew sixfold since 2010
- 3. Nearly half of top AI researchers studied in China
- 4. China's research spending rose from 12% to 88% of America's
- 5. China spends more importing chips than crude oil
- 6. Two in three working satellites are now Starlinks
- 7. Irish data centres now use more power than city homes
- 8. Indians now file more patents at home than Germans
- 9. India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined
- 10. Brazilians now use Pix more often than all cards combined
- 11. Poland's digital service exports grew fivefold in a decade
- 12. Africa now holds 32 of the 38 mostly offline countries
- 13. Viet Nam climbed from 30th to fifth in computer exports
- 14. Caracas home internet has caught up with Mexico City's
- 15. Mexico replaced China as America's top computer supplier
- 16. India went from 2% to 42% of America's smartphone imports
India's share of US smartphone imports in 2025 ($22.1 bn), up from 1.8% in 2022 ($1.2 bn).
China's share in 2025, down from 77.3% in 2022 and 81.0% in 2024: still first, but only just.
US smartphone imports in 2025, against $66.1 bn in 2022: the buyer stayed, the factory country moved.
the numbers & method
| India (bn) | China (bn) | Viet Nam (bn) | Other (bn) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.2 | 51.1 | 12.7 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 5.0 | 45.2 | 8.0 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 7.0 | 41.7 | 2.2 | 0.6 |
| 2025 | 22.2 | 23.7 | 5.9 | 0.7 |
Claim types Fact · Interpretation
UN Statistics Division, UN Comtrade (HS, annual), commodity 851713 (smartphones; an HS 2022 code, so no comparison before 2022), United States imports by partner as reported by the United States, US$, read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (un-comtrade, editions 'UN Comtrade HS 851713 M' versions 5dee9396b6 (2022), c10c1dfdc9 (2023), dfde2a79f0 (2024), 9122fae650 (2025); GUIDELINES §4.11). US$ million, World / China / India / Viet Nam: 2022 66,145.3 / 51,116.6 / 1,172.5 / 12,667.8; 2023 59,633.4 / 45,203.2 / 5,012.4 / 7,984.0; 2024 51,504.6 / 41,733.3 / 7,041.3 / 2,179.1; 2025 52,395.5 / 23,682.6 / 22,146.9 / 5,890.7. 'Other' = World minus the three (largest in 2025: Indonesia 191.2 M, Hong Kong 162.2 M, South Korea 122.2 M). Shares are progrss calculations of each partner's value over the US-reported world total. India is UN Comtrade partner code 699. Partner is the country of origin recorded by US customs: it says where phones were made, not which brand made them. Values are current dollars. The 2025 fall in China's share came in one year; India's share rose in each year shown. Takeaway 3's 'the factory country moved' is Interpretation. Comtrade data: free public preview, credit UN Comtrade. Related plates: 251 (Mexico and US computers), 281 (Viet Nam and Morocco's smartphones).
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