- Author: Ed Lee
- Publication Date: February 2025
- Price: $2,199
- Report Type: Forecast
- Pages: 9
- Figures: 4
- Tables: 4
Report Summary:
Photography continues to play a significant role in most everyone’s lives. From special occasions, like the birth of a child, graduations, and family reunions, to everyday moments, like sunsets, silly pet moments, and snapshots of friends and family, people want to record them to appreciate and share at the moment and/or preserve them for future memories and generations to come.
Rise Above Research expects that the number of photos taken and stored will increase in 2025 and continue to rise at a steady linear rate through 2029, with smartphones accounting for most of those photos. Despite concerns about inflation and volatile economies, we expect that many people will continue with their normal daily lives and travel, take vacations, and hold events this year, and of course they will keep taking photos of those everyday happenings. This will lead to a 6% increase in photos taken this year to around 1.9 trillion photos worldwide.
This report is based on the Rise Above Research Worldwide Image Capture Forecast. It includes:
- Estimates of photos taken globally for the years 2024 to 2029
- The shares of photos taken by smartphones, cameras, and tablets
- Which regions of the world are most photo-active
- The cumulative number of unique photos saved
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