What percentage of the world owns a smartphone?

~60% (~5 billion)

Habits

About 5.8 billion people, 70% of the world, use a mobile phone (early 2025), and smartphones make up roughly 87% of handsets in use. That puts smartphone users at around 5 billion, or 60% of humanity. In high-income countries ownership is above 90%; growth now comes mostly from South Asia and Africa.