The latest CIPA numbers are out

   

CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their latest camera production data for 2021 (orange: 2021, black: 2020, blue: 2019):

2021 Final Full Year CIPA numbers

Mirrorless now had a 59% unit share of ILC’s and a 78% shipped value share (of DSLR + Mirrorless).

Based on the first eleven months of 2021 and last year’s shipping patterns, we last predicted a full year estimate of 5.346 to 5.432 million ILC units shipped compared to:

2021 came in at 5.348 million units, so 2021 came in at just 40,000 units above 2020.   How much of this is because of pandemic related supply issues and the chip shortage and how much of it is because of lower demand is open to question. (Canon had predicted a full fiscal year industry estimate of 6 million units and they claimed they’d take 50% of that, but they estimated too high.)

Full Year 2021 Units & Shipped Value:

(All comparisons to full year  2020)

DSLR Units : 2.242 million  -5.6% YTD

DSLR Shipped Value: ¥91.3 billion -5.6% YTD

Mirrorless Units: 3.106 million  +6% YTD

Mirrorless Shipped Value: ¥325 billion +31% YTD

Compact Units: 3.103 million -16% YTD

Compact Shipped Value: ¥73.10 billion  -4% YTD

Lenses for smaller than 35mm Units: 4.964 million -8% YTD

Lenses for smaller than 35mm Shipped Value: ¥77.1 billion +1% YTD

Lenses for 35mm and larger Units: 4.586 million, +27% YTD

Lenses for 35mm and larger Shipped Value: ¥263.2 billion +49% YTD

Cumulative 2021 Mirrorless unit share (of Mirrorless + DSLR): 58.1% (was 55.3% 2020)

Cumulative 2021 Mirrorless Shipped Value share: 78% (was 71.9% 2020)

The ratio of lenses shipped to bodies shipped is 1.78 for 2021.  It was 1.71 for 2020.

Full Year 2021 Geographic Share:

DSLR:

Mirrorless:

Compacts:

Lenses:

List of participating CIPA companies can be found here.

Source: CIPA (thanks ZoetMB) via NikonRumors