source: photoscala
(click here for the google english translation).
– A total of 130 million digital cameras will be sold worldwide in 2009 (decrease of 7% -> about 140 million pieces in 2008)
– one of eleven of them is a SLR camera
– Western Europeans do buy more expensive cameras
– About 70% of all digital cameras were sold in Europe and North America (each 35%). Each 8% went to Japan and China, the remaining 14% in the rest of the world.