DRG Forecasts Total US Personal Devices Unit Shipments Will Continue to Decline Over the Next Five Years
The most important causal factors influencing the forecasts are the economy, the pandemic induced segment split, and the return to pre pandemic replacement rates.
- The most important causal factors influencing the forecasts are the economy, the pandemic induced segment split, and the return to pre pandemic replacement rates.
- However, we are predicting that the unemployment rate will increase over the forecast period over its current level.
- Our models also predict that total average employment in 2024 will slightly decline over 2023 levels before resuming slow growth in the subsequent years.
- Our conclusion is that the influencing factors driving a slowing of replacement rates outweighs the influencing factors driving an increase in replacement rates.