how many people have smartphones in the world
2 Billion Consumers Worldwide to Get Smart(phones) by 2016. Over half of mobile phone users globally will have smartphones in 2018. The number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass 2 billion in 2016, according to new figures from eMarketerâafter nearly getting there in 2015. Next year, there will be over 1.91 billion smartphone users across the globe, a figure that will increase another 12.6% to near 2.16 billion in 2016.