How many PC's worldwide were built between 1990 and 2002

Drchunga --

Getting a worldwide number relies on three different resources --
Dataquest, ETForecasts, and IDC numbers.  Dataquest numbers are taken
from published numbers in a business almanac:

1990: 23.7 million
1991: 27.0 million
1992: 32.4 million
1993: 38.9 million
1994: 47.9 million
1995: 60.2 million
1996: 70.9 million
1997: 84.2 million

The numbers for the next two years are from ETForecasts
"Worldwide PC Sales will Surpass 200 million units in 2005" (Feb. 25,
2000)
http://www.etforecasts.com/pr/pr200.htm

1998: 88.8 million
1999: 107.0 million

and finally International Data Corp.'s numbers (including a forecast
for this year) from PC World
"PC Sales Continue to Slide" (Sept. 10, 2001)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,61283,00.asp

2000: 131.3 million
2001: 129.6 million
2002 (F): 135.5 million

There are some interesting Google Answers relating to market
penetration for PCs, including this one, "Mobile phone, PC and PDA
penetration rates":
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=76633

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Answer by omnivorous-ga on 21 Nov 2002 14:55 PST

Google search strategy:
"worldwide PC sales" + 1999

My apologies for omitting that!

Omnivorous-GA

Good sources however some links would have been nice