15 Amazing Facts About Apple

Apple filed its annual report with the SEC yesterday (a "10K," in Wall Street-speak).

Allow us to summarize it for you:

This is one hell of a company.

Don't believe us?

1. Apple grew its sales by $22 billion last year. That growth alone is bigger than most companies you've ever heard of. It's also more revenue than the ENTIRE COMPANY generated four years ago.

2. Apple generated $65 billion of revenue last year. That's bigger than the GDP of Iraq, Croatia, Libya, Ecuador, and more than 100 other countries

Only 61 countries are bigger than Apple.

Here's the GDP of the 100+ countries in the world that are smaller than Apple, per Wikipedia (2008).

World rank / Country / GDP (in millions)

62	Iraq	65,840
63	Croatia	63,190
64	Libya	60,350
65	Ecuador	57,300
66	Cuba	56,030
67	Sudan	54,680
68	Oman	53,400
69	Syria	52,520
70	Luxembourg	51,740
71	Slovenia	49,220
72	Belarus	48,970
73	Bulgaria	47,100
74	Dominican Republic	46,740
75	Azerbaijan	43,110
76	Serbia	42,880[5]
77	Sri Lanka	41,320
78	Tunisia	40,170
79	Guatemala	37,300
80	Lithuania	37,250
81	Lebanon	33,590
82	Uzbekistan	32,820
83	Kenya	32,720
84	Ethiopia	32,320
85	Turkmenistan	31,860
86	Uruguay	31,530
87	Costa Rica	29,320
88	North Korea	27,800
89	Burma	27,550
90	Latvia	26,250
91	Yemen	25,130
92	Panama	24,710
93	Cyprus	23,600
94	Jordan	22,930
95	Côte d'Ivoire	22,500
96	Tanzania	22,320
97	Cameroon	22,220
—	Macau	22,100
98	El Salvador	21,100
99	Trinidad and Tobago	20,380
100	Bahrain	20,210
101	Estonia	19,120
102	Bolivia	17,550
103	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17,130
104	Uganda	15,740
105	Ghana	15,510
106	Paraguay	14,670
107	Honduras	14,270
108	Afghanistan	14,040
109	Zambia	13,000
110	Senegal	12,740
111	Nepal	12,610
112	Equatorial Guinea	12,220
113	Albania	12,190
114	Iceland	12,130
115	Jamaica	11,900
116	Botswana	11,630
117	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11,110
118	Gabon	11,020
119	Cambodia	10,800
120	Georgia	10,740
121	Brunei	10,550
122	Mozambique	9,831
123	Republic of the Congo	9,532
124	Namibia	9,459
125	Macedonia	9,238
126	Mali	8,965
127	Mauritius	8,761
128	Armenia	8,714
129	Madagascar	8,551
130	Burkina Faso	8,105
131	Malta	7,955
132	Papua New Guinea	7,907
133	The Bahamas	7,335
134	Chad	6,854
135	Benin	6,672
—	West Bank and Gaza	6,641
136	Haiti	6,558
137	Nicaragua	6,151
—	French Polynesia	6,100
138	Laos	5,598
139	Moldova	5,403[8]
140	Niger	5,261
141	Rwanda	5,245
—	Jersey	5,100
142	Tajikistan	4,982
143	Liechtenstein	4,603
144	Kyrgyzstan	4,570
145	Malawi	4,570
146	Zimbabwe	4,397[6]
147	Guinea	4,394
148	Mongolia	4,203
149	Montenegro	4,114
150	Barbados	3,595
—	New Caledonia	3,300
—	Kosovo	3,237
151	Fiji	3,060
152	Mauritania	3,029
153	Swaziland	2,983
154	Suriname	2,962
155	Togo	2,865
—	Guam	2,773
—	Guernsey	2,742
156	Somalia	2,731
—	Isle of Man	2,719
—	Faroe Islands	2,400
—	Aruba	2,258
—	Cayman Islands	2,250
—	Greenland	2,030
157	Guyana	2,024
158	Central African Republic	1,986
159	Sierra Leone	1,877
160	Eritrea	1,873
161	Cape Verde	1,768
162	Lesotho	1,602
163	Maldives	1,357
164	Belize	1,336
165	Burundi	1,321
166	Bhutan	1,269
167	Antigua and Barbuda	1,178
—	Gibraltar	1,106
—	British Virgin Islands	1,095
168	Djibouti	1,049
169	San Marino	1,048
170	Saint Lucia	973
171	Liberia	876
172	Guinea-Bissau	826
173	Seychelles	767
174	The Gambia	736
175	Solomon Islands	657
176	Vanuatu	635
—	Northern Mariana Islands	633.4
177	Grenada	615
178	East Timor	590
179	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	567
180	Samoa	558
181	Saint Kitts and Nevis	557
182	Comoros	532
—	American Samoa	462.2
183	Dominica	362
184	Tonga	313
185	Federated States of Micronesia	238.1
186	São Tomé and Príncipe	191
—	Cook Islands	183.2
—	Anguilla	175.4
187	Palau	164
188	Marshall Islands	161.7
189	Kiribati	130
—	Falkland Islands	105.1
190	Tuvalu	14.94
—	Niue	10.01

3. And, yes, that $65 billion of revenue makes Apple officially bigger than Microsoft ($62 billion)

4. Apple's growth last year IN EUROPE ALONE was $7 billion. That's bigger than the GDP of Liechtenstein

Image: vauvau on flickr

5. iPhones now account for 39% of Apple's overall revenue. iPhones did not exist 4 years ago.

6. Apple sold 40 million iPhones last year. That's 110,000 iPhones sold per day.

And 4,583 iPhones per hour.

And 76 iPhones per minute.

And 1.27 iPhones per second!

The iPhone is now sold in 89 countries.

7. iTunes--Apple's online music, video, and app store--racked up sales of $4 billion last year. That's $1 billion more revenue than the $3 billion generated by one of world's biggest music companies, Warner Music Group

We're not going to bother to compare those sales to the sales of music and software retailers. Because there basically aren't any anymore.

8. Apple sold $9.8 billion worth of stuff in its retail stores last year. That's bigger than Saks, Barnes & Noble, Ann Taylor, Tiffany, Dick's Sporting Goods, RadioShack, and Bed Bath & Beyond

Image: Flickr/Lesh51

(But it's still only 1/5th the size of Best Buy, which had revenue of $50 billion.)

9. Apple's retail-store sales grew by $3 billion last year. That's bigger than Tiffany's whole business!

10. Apple opened 44 new stores last year, ending the year with 317. Each store sold an average of $34 million worth of stuff, up from $26 million the year before

11. Apple's stores are mind-bogglingly productive: They each sell an average of $93,150 worth of stuff every day

Image: Associated Press

That's $3,900 an hour. And $65 a minute. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

12. Apple's retail stores now have 26,500 full-time employees, or 84 per store. Each of these employees sells about $370,000 worth of Apple stuff each year

13. Most of Apple's revenue (~$45 billion) comes from product categories that Apple has invented in the past 10 years (iPods, iPhones, iPads, iTunes). Almost half ($30 billion) comes from product categories Apple has invented in the past 4 years.

14. Apple spent only $1.7 billion on research and development last year. Microsoft, with smaller sales and vastly slower growth, spent $8.7 billion

15. Apple spent only $5.5 billion on sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses last year. Microsoft spent $17 billion.

Image: Associated Press

16. So it's not surprising that Apple is now the most valuable technology company in the world

17. And now for some other fun Apple facts...

18. Apple generated $625 of revenue from each of the 40 million iPhones it sold last year

19. And $164 of revenue for every iPod sold

20. And $1,279 for every Mac sold

That's 13.7 million Macs--9 million laptops and 4.6 million desktops.

The desktops brought in $1,340 apiece.

The laptops brought in $1,206 apiece.

21. And $665 for every iPad.

Image: AP

Apple sold 7.5 million iPads last year, in 9 months.

That's 833,000 a month.

Or 27,000 a day.

Or 1,157 an hour.

Or 19 a minute.

They aren't kidding about "insanely great."

Image: Adam Tow, All Things Digital

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