Carrying on from a raft of new figures on how tablet ownership is about to explode, Futuresource Consulting has now said that there will be twice as many tablet owners in USA and western Europe by 2014.

The researcher says that total tablet sales went beyond 64 million units in 2011, but claims that this figure will shoot up to 232 million units in 2016, with tablet ownership in the consumer market rising from 52 million across USA and western Europe in 2011, to a user base of 153 million in 2013.