The latest Gartner report shows that there are currently more than one billion PCs being used worldwide. From this point on, numbers can only go up, as a yearly increase of 12 percent is expected to be recorded over the following six years. By 2014, there will probably be more than two billion PCs installed.

The reason for such expectations is the following: for the time being, well-developed markets such as the US, Japan and Western Europe make up for 58 percent of today’s installed PC base. However, the same markets only cover about 15 percent of the world’s population. As the number of developing countries in which PCs are becoming available keeps rising, a real explosion in sales is just around the corner.

In October last year, Gartner predicted that by the end of 2007, people will have spent more than $3 trillion on IT devices and services, thus showing an increase of 8 percent, when compared to the previous year. The main reason for this was found in the rapid growth of the developing countries’ markets as well. 

Market research company Gartner also reported that sales of mobile phones reached 1.15 billion in 2007. This shows a 16 percent increase from 2006, when 990.9 million phones were sold.

It seems the ever-growing revenues are connected to pretty much anything that’s IT-related, not just PCs.