What Apple Looks Like In Numbers (INFOGRAPHIC)

After Apple announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2012 on April 24, it became clear the tech giant won't be slowing in growth any time soon; in the last quarter alone, Apple saw $39.2 billion in revenue and sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, four million Macs and 7.7 million iPods.

While these numbers are staggering in their own right, they're nothing compared to Apple's overall reach and growth. Sortable, a service that helps users search and compare products like phones, cameras, tablets and laptops, proved as much with a recent infographic, titled "Apple By The Numbers".

Using Apple investor documents, stats from comScore and numbers from news sources such as CNET, Forbes and All Things D, Sortable created an easy-to-read infographic showing just how huge Apple has become. One of the most surprising facts: 67 million iPads have been sold since the tablet's launch in January 2010. According to a recent study conducted by Internet ad research firm Chitika Insights, all of these iPads combined drive nearly 95% of all tablet web traffic, reports Apple Insider.

Take a look at more Apple numbers in Sortable's infographic (below) and then tell us: Which stat surprised you most? Share your thoughts in the comments! But before you do, make sure to flip through the slideshow that follows to check out nine surprising things Apple's worth more than.

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Sortable Apple by the Numbers

A look at things Apple is worth more than. (Figures based on Apple market cap of roughly $550 billion.)

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• The Entire U.S. Retail Sector

  <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-apple-now-bigger-entire-us-retail-sector" target="_hplink">ZeroHedge notes that when Apple's market cap surpassed $542 billion</a>, Apple was worth more than the entire U.S. retail sector.

• The Combined GDPs of Iraq, North Korea, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, and New Zealand

  Even the combined estimated 2011 GDPs of <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html" target="_hplink">Iraq</a> ($108.6 billion), <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kn.html" target="_hplink">North Korea</a> ($28 billion), <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html" target="_hplink">Vietnam</a> ($121.6 billion), <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rq.html" target="_hplink">Puerto Rico</a> ($93.52 billion), and <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nz.html" target="_hplink">New Zealand</a> ($168.8 billion) aren't worth more than Apple.

• The Worldwide Illegal Drug Trade

  <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/illegal-drugs-trade-now-worth-119092" target="_hplink">According to The Daily Mirror</a>, as of March of last year, the world's entire illegal drug trade was worth an estimated £200billion, or about $314.7 billion -- some $200 billion less than Apple. [Hat Tip: <a href="http://thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com/" target="_hplink">Downtown Josh Brown on ThingsAppleIsWorthMoreThan.tumblr.com</a>]

• Google and Microsoft Combined

  Apple is also now worth more than fellow tech giants <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/apple-market-cap-google-microsoft_n_1266101.html" target="_hplink">Google and Microsoft</a> put together. Their current market caps are at approximately $202 billion and $275.3 billion, respectively, at time of writing. GeekWire notes that Apple's revenue in the most recent quarter, a staggering $46.3 billion, is equal to the<a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2012/apples-quarterly-revenue-yahoos-googles-microsoft" target="_hplink"> "combined quarterly revenue of one Microsoft ($20.89 billon); two Googles ($10.5 billion); and three Yahoos ($1.17 billion)."</a>

• Approximately 608 Million iPads

  Apple is worth approximately 608 million Wifi and 4G-equipped 64GB iPads, which <a href="http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad" target="_hplink">cost $899 each</a>.

• 321 Space Shuttle Endeavors

  NASA's space shuttle Endeavour, which completed its final flight <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/01/space-shuttle-endeavour-m_n_869528.html" target="_hplink">in June of last year</a>, cost $1.7 billion to build, <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#1" target="_hplink">according to NASA.</a> It would take 321 space shuttle Endeavours to add up to one Apple. <a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/02/29/three-things-apple-is-worth-more-than-aapl/" target="_hplink">GottaBeMobile also notes Apple is worth far more than the Apollo Space Program</a>, which landed the first human on the moon: <blockquote>Adjusted for inflation, the entire Apollo Space Program cost $145 - $170 billion dollars. Even at $170 billion, that's still less than half of what Apple is worth. We could fund the entire Apollo program twice, and still not spend as much money as Apple is worth.</blockquote>

• 526 NFL Football Teams

  <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2011/09/07/the-nfls-most-valuable-teams/" target="_hplink">According to Forbes</a>, as of September 2011, the average National Football League team was worth about $1.04 billion, which means it would take about 526 of them to add up to Apple's worth. There are only 32 right now, so it seems the NFL has a lot of catching up to do. [Hat Tip: <a href="http://thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com/" target="_hplink">Downtown Josh Brown on ThingsAppleIsWorthMoreThan.tumblr.com</a>]

• Exxon, America's Former Most Valuable Company

  Apple <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/apple-passes-exxon-market-cap_n_1231074.html" target="_hplink">surpassed Exxon</a> as the country's most valuable company, in terms of market cap, back in January. At the time of writing, Apple is worth about $141.41 billion more than the oil giant.

• The U.S. Government's Cash Holdings

  The U.S. government's <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-29/tech/apple.cash.government_1_ceo-jobs-apple-cash-balance?_s=PM:TECH" target="_hplink">cash holdings are around $73 billion</a>, meaning the U.S. couldn't afford Apple, which is worth around seven times as much as all the cash in the country's coffers. Apple actually has far more cash on hand than the U.S. government: at its most recent earnings announcement, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/technology/thebuzz/index.htm?section=money_topstories" target="_hplink">Apple revealed that it has over $96 billion in the bank</a>.

• 31 Mark Zuckerbergs, 8 Bill Gates

  As of March 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a net worth of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/" target="_hplink">$17.5 billion, according to Forbes</a>. That means it'd take about 31 of him to equal Apple's worth. Apple is also worth more than 8 Bill Gates,<a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/" target="_hplink"> who has a net worth of approximately $61 billion.</a>

• Stocks Mixed and Apple Tops Exxon in Market Cap

  This feed contains the video's "Stocks Mixed and Apple Tops Exxon in Market Cap" info API

• Tim Cook Talks Apple at Goldman Sachs Conference

  Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke with investors at Goldman Sachs about Apple's financial plans, business operations and the future.

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Comments

[BuckCarson]

02:48 PM on 06/10/2012

Apple = 1 week of deficits by the largest "corporation" on earth.

Sucking the life out its people, the Federal government goes unchecked by the insular followers of the progressive persecution posse.

[Olin T Flowers]

12:14 PM on 05/14/2012

so Apple has become that company in their 1984 commercial. Big Fruit is watching.

[spike91nz]

11:07 AM on 05/10/2012

Any one else notice the condition in the new agreement for iCloud where the ownership of the products (including music and movies) is nontransferable at death? That means we are only renting the products and can not leave them to our family. If I can not assign them in my will then I am want to understand in what sense I own the product once I purchase it on iTunes. If I can not transfer that ownership upon my death, it does not belong to me, but to them. Anyone else notice this shift? It wasn't this way just a few years ago. Is our ownership limited to a single life and theirs, through copyright laws, available for generations?

[ReadOn455]

10:01 AM on 05/10/2012

I'm reading Walter Isaacson's book on Steve Jobs. The genius who was focus on producting the very best product. Jobs knew what would work and push forward. The Reward is the Journey....Steve Jobs.
A must read! Jobs left us to soon.....RIP.

[Andrew Cole]

09:59 AM on 05/10/2012

Apple is a cancer on computing and I wish it would just go away. It used to be Microsoft, but Apple has clearly taken the torch and ran away. I look at a computer and think of all the possibilities, but Apple only sees the way they can restrict people and charge them in order to make a profit. Most people who own a computer have no idea what they are missing because they are ignorant; they gobble up Apple products and software at outrageous prices while being told what software to use. Apple can keep their walled garden, restrictions, and developer protection racket (30%).

Use Linux

[Doc Wattson]

10:27 AM on 05/10/2012

Preach it brother

[Manny Lucoff]

11:41 AM on 05/10/2012

The walled garden surrounds you Mr. Cole. Perhaps it's difficult for you to understand that people buy Apple products by the millions because they work!

[retrievals]

09:41 AM on 05/10/2012

So why can't they begin to take the lead in corporate responsibility to the countries and people that made their corporation so great?

They didn't do it alone.

[escribacat]

09:53 AM on 05/10/2012

Agreed. It's nice to see such a success story but the stories coming out of those work farms in China sound pretty horrific.

[builderman55]

09:31 AM on 05/10/2012

One of the greatest companies in the History of Capitalism. Amazing by any yardstick... I've owned Apples since my first Apple IIe in the mid-80's and have never had a bad experience. Nice to have a model of a good company in the ea of corporate rape and pillage...

[TFlint]

09:25 AM on 05/10/2012

Look at it this way. In 2000 I bought $12,000 worth of Apple stock. I let it ride. I now have $1,000,000 in Apple stock. Read the whines you find here as sour grapes.

[retrievals]

09:39 AM on 05/10/2012

I sold it at $38 before their first split in the 90s :(

[escribacat]

09:55 AM on 05/10/2012

Wow. Time to retire!

[Blackwing]

09:11 AM on 05/10/2012

They just make quality products. It's that simple. I would love to buy a new iPad but my 9 year old Mac Powerbook just won't stop working. I bought it right after the Decider invaded Iraq.

[nicknormal]

09:37 AM on 05/10/2012

Yes, quality product. Like their Mac Pro line which hasn't been updated since 2010, over 650 days ago. And if you have one, try upgrading a component inside, go ask a Genius and they'll tell you, "Sorry, we don't have anything available. Would you like to buy a Mac Air?" Because you know, that $4K desktop machine is so disposable.

[eds123]

10:04 AM on 05/10/2012

Wow, with a statement like that you might actually be happier with an Air.

[inreasonsimage]

08:56 AM on 05/10/2012

Fifty-eight percent of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone. If iPhone sales begin to falter, because of competition, Apple won't look so rosy.

[WSAY]

09:22 AM on 05/10/2012

And the people with hate in their hearts, like you, would love that.

[CA Ray]

10:46 AM on 05/10/2012

If.

[clocknova]

08:54 AM on 05/10/2012

They've come a long way since 1997. Those were hard days to be a Mac user.

[escribacat]

09:56 AM on 05/10/2012

True. I remember when it looked like Apple was going to go under.

[susane07]

08:52 AM on 05/10/2012

It'd be nice if (1) Apple sourced its manufacturing work in the US and created jobs in America rather than mistreating workers in China (2) funded charities like Bill Gates does which assist tens of thousands of people and (3) paid its fair share of taxes.

Good grief - love their products but hate that company and way it does business.

[TFlint]

09:16 AM on 05/10/2012

If you bothered to read, you would know that you are spreading lies. The accusations against Apple were fake. The people in China who work on Apple products are in the upper 80% of income earners in China.

[escribacat]

09:59 AM on 05/10/2012

That story about Foxconn resurfaced again later though and you can't deny a big part of their success is due to incredibly cheap Chinese labor. They could bring a lot of those jobs home --along with their supply chains -- and still make billions and billions. They have the right to do it any way they want but the fact remains that they, like all other big corporations, are not exactly "patriotic."

[realitybriar]

03:35 PM on 05/10/2012

80% of what?

[clocknova]

09:47 AM on 05/10/2012

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/10/apple-to-contribute-toward-costs-of-improving-working-conditions-at-foxconn-facilities/

We complained, they listened.

[mrinaliniv]

08:37 AM on 05/10/2012

California is bankrupt and schools are closing down/lose funding. But apple has a GDP greater than many countries. Maybe this is why corporation (which now has the rights of an individual) should pay tax as an individual. For sake of the land you live on. At least pay at the capital gains tax rate of 15%.

[somearelost]

09:22 AM on 05/10/2012

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa more taxes from the liberals!!

[Gravenstein]

09:23 AM on 05/10/2012

It ain't Apple's fault that California is broke.

[ochaye]

08:36 AM on 05/10/2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD795JHwYBI

[greymon1]

08:02 AM on 05/10/2012

Now that we've seen all the good things about Apple, how about the bad things. Hmm, number of hours Foxconn workers work, wages, amount of taxes Apple has dodged, percentage of Mac to Windows computers. Cost of a Mac with the exact same specs to the cost of a computer made by HP, Dell, ASUS or Lenovo. Journalism shouldn't be one-sided, right?

[TFlint]

09:20 AM on 05/10/2012

Minds shouldn't be closed either. Windows computers are garbage. The PC operating system is stuck in the 1980s. Apple pays moe taxes to the US than any other company. The New York Times has admitted that it's attack on Apple was based in lies.

[greymon1]

08:08 PM on 05/10/2012

Hmm, I wonder who is more believable, some random online commenter with no sources, credibility, or facts, or a newspaper that has been around for more than a century, and has done actual research? Did you also think Watergate was also a bunch of lies from the Times?

[Gravenstein]

09:23 AM on 05/10/2012

Neither should comments.