Apple results: the extraordinary numbers in full!

Phone manufacturer making $8.3m profit every hour of the day and sitting on cash pile worth $556 for every American

                                            

$18bn
Apple's record-breaking profit, bigger than the quarterly GDP of Greece, equal to Yemen, and almost as big as Denmark

£11bn
The amount on Britain spends on university education every year - Apple's profits could fund this

$556 (£367)
How much each American citizen would get if Apple's cash pile was shared out

34,000
The number of iPhones sold by Apple per hour during the quarter, equal to nine per second

78m
The phones sold by Samsung in its last quarter, meaning Apple - which sold 74.5m - is close to reclaiming its crown as the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer, which it lost in 2011

$651bn
The stock market value of Apple, which makes it the biggest company in the world

1bn
Apple says it has now sold more than 1bn products that use its iOS operating system

4pc
Increase in share price of Arm Holdings, UK company which supplies Apple with chips, following results

70pc
Increase in Apple sales in China, which now accounts for $16.1bn of the company's revenues

$74.6bn
Apple's revenues for the three months to December 31, which was also a record

69pc
The proportion of Apple's sales coming from the iPhone

45pc
Share of iPhone sales from the iPhone 6, according to an independent report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. The iPhone 6 Plus made up 30pc, the report said. Apple has not confirmed the breakdown

21.4m
Global iPad sales during the quarter, the one disappointing part of the results, Apple was expected to sell 22.1m