In 1Q 2020, China mobile phone production declined 50% from 4Q 2019 and dropped 33% from a year earlier. Many factories were temporarily closed.
Production has since recovered with 2Q 2020 units up 36% from 1Q and 3Q 2020 units up 15% from 2Q. However even if production in 4Q 2020 returns to the 4Q 2019 peak of 517 million units, total 2020 production would be 1525 million units, down 15% from 2019..
Mobile phones include both smartphones and feature phones. Smartphones account for about 75% of total mobile phone units.
