WSTS Historical Billings Data, Delivered Whole

One region, one period, one measure:

region         period         measure                     unit      value
Worldwide      June 2026      monthly billings            1000 US$  151934915
Asia Pacific   June 2026      monthly billings            1000 US$   84848976
Americas       June 2026      monthly billings            1000 US$   53250752
Europe         June 2026      monthly billings            1000 US$    8173113
Japan          June 2026      monthly billings            1000 US$    5662074
Worldwide      June 2026      three-month moving average  1000 US$  134447227
Worldwide      January 1986   monthly billings            1000 US$    1645914

Two properties in that block carry the analytical weight. First, the fixed regional layout - Americas, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific, Worldwide - repeats identically under every year header back to 1986, so the whole archive normalizes into one tidy table without a per-year mapping step. Second, the units never move: everything is thousands of US dollars, meaning a 1986 worldwide month (~$1.65 billion) and the June 2026 print (~$152 billion) read off the same scale. That roughly ninety-fold expansion is the industry's growth curve in two rows.

Note what the smoothing row says: worldwide June 2026 billings landed about $17.5 billion above their own three-month moving average ($152 billion versus $134.4 billion). The raw series carries the timing; the smoothed series carries the direction.

Ten verified fields form the core dictionary: the calendar-year block heading, twelve month columns, Q1-Q4 subtotal columns, a Total Year column closing each block, the five regional rows (Americas, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and a worldwide total defined so the other four sum to it - they do, to the dollar), and the smoothed companion series. Every field definition is confirmed against the published workbook layout rather than guessed from headers, and each travels with an example value beside it in our dictionary.

The five region rows are billing locations, not end-demand locations - a distinction worth writing down before anyone joins them to consumption-side data, because a fabless firm books revenue in one geography while its foundry output ships from another.

Beyond the regional core, the wider WSTS program extends into product-category breakdowns - Discretes, Optoelectronics, Sensors, Analog, Micro, Logic and Memory - plus end-use detail. That layer lives deeper in the program (the members-only reports, explained), and we pin its exact field names down against a delivered extract before anything in production depends on them.

Geography - five fixed cuts that have held steady since 1986. The stability matters more than the count: a regional share computed in 1990 computes identically today, which is rare in market data and priceless in backtests. The mix has moved anyway - in January 1986 Japan led with $638.5 million of the world total, ahead of the Americas at $555.9 million, Europe at $346.5 million and Asia Pacific last at $105.1 million; by June 2026 Asia Pacific carried about 56 percent of worldwide billings ($84.8 billion) and the Americas about 35 percent ($53.3 billion), while Europe ($8.2 billion) and Japan ($5.7 billion) combined for under 10 percent.

Temporal - 41 years deep at monthly and quarterly resolution, 1986 through the latest reported month, with Q1-Q4 and annual totals in every block. Forecast releases extend several years beyond the present.

Granularity - regional totals, monthly to annual. What the regional core deliberately omits is the product dimension: no country detail below the four regions, no device-family split, no units or pricing - billings only. For country-level depth the pool pairs this with trade records; for device families, with the SIA Factbook below.

One series rarely settles a chip-market question. The semiconductors pool pools three independent views of chip trade, a national-competitiveness panel and distribution-channel firmographics beside the billings anchor - the table below maps the pairings, and the best semiconductors datasets shortlist ranks all eight side by side.

Treat the monthly sheet as the demand input and the 3MMA sheet as the signal. A monthly semiconductor sales forecast starts from the five regional series, uses the smoothed companion to separate trend from one-month jumps - June 2026's $17.5 billion gap between print and average is the textbook case - and extends forward with the Spring and Fall projections. Because the file reaches back to 1986, the same pull supports seasonality estimates and cycle-phase comparisons across earlier downturns, on definitions that never changed underneath you.

Cross-check the cycle against shipped volume. UN Comtrade Plus TradeFlow covers HS chapter 85 at six-digit depth - 8542 integrated circuits, 8541 diodes and transistors - reported bilateral, reporter by partner, from 1962 onward, with values, weights and CIF/FOB splits per flow. A billings acceleration that shows up in cross-border IC flows too is real; one that does not is worth a second look.

Add the competitiveness frame. The World Bank High-Technology Exports Indicator gives one comparable number per economy per year - high-tech exports as a share of manufactured exports for 200+ economies, 2007 to 2024 - which turns a regional billings story into a country story.

Teams typically join all three on period and geography keys, then let the billings series set the denominator. Request a sample scoped to your regions and window and the same fields described here arrive as rows.

Investors and quants treat the series as the demand input it is - forty-one years of monthly regional revenue feeding revenue forecasts and cycle-timing models, with the 3MMA smoothing out the noise raw months carry.

Market researchers size the market before sizing anything inside it; the worldwide and regional totals are the denominator most semiconductor models start from.

Equipment and materials analysts convert fab operators' revenue into demand for wafer-processing tools, consumables and process chemicals, using regional billings as the leading indicator for equipment orders in each geography.

Corporate strategy teams lean on the multi-decade history for long-horizon questions about where the industry concentrates - site selection, capacity planning, supply-base geography.

Journalists and academics cite the institutional publisher because every figure resolves to a named record with stated coverage, which is what makes a chart survive review.

All five groups share one habit: logging region, measure and period with every pull so results reproduce. We handle that in the delivery metadata, so the discipline survives staff turnover.

Start with the semiconductors data guide, the pillar covering all eight pooled records and how the billings anchor fits beside trade, competitiveness and channel coverage. For browsing, the semiconductors data hub lists the slice and the best semiconductors datasets ranking scores it side by side.

Then go deeper on the two layers this page touches: the WSTS Historical Billings Report glossary entry unpacks the program itself, and the product page - sample rows, field dictionary, coverage chips - lives at WSTS World Semiconductor Trade Statistics - Historical Billings & Forecasts. Open it, read the dictionary, then request the sample: cut to your regions, your periods, your measures.