Apple dishes out the stats in its WWDC keynote.
Apple's App Store has now passed the five billion downloads milestone, according to CEO Steve Jobs, speaking at today's WWDC conference keynote.
The company has paid developers more than $1 billion for sales of paid apps on the store, although you'd need more data on the ratio of free to paid downloads to start calculating an average revenue figure.
Jobs also confirmed that there are now more than 8,500 native iPad apps available in the App Store, which have so far totalled more than 35 million downloads. That's 17 apps for each of the two million iPads that have been sold.
Meanwhile, the iBooks application for iPad has so far generated more than five million e-book downloads, although Jobs didn't split that out between free and paid titles.
He did claim that the five biggest publishers on iBooks say that the store is already accounting for 22% of their e-book sales.
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During the keynote, Jobs also addressed criticism of Apple's approval policy, claiming that 95% of apps are approved within seven days.
Three new iPhone apps were spotlighted during the keynote: the Netflix streaming movies service, Zynga's Farmville social game, and Activision's Guitar Hero.
Apple also unveiled an iPhone version of iMovie, its video-editing software. It will be released as a $4.99 app for the new iPhone 4 handset.
In a stat-packed presentation, Jobs also revealed that Apple now has more than 150 million registered iTunes accounts - complete with credit card details - and that this month, it will sell its 100 millionth device running the iPhone OS.
The latest version, iOS 4, will be available on 21st June as a free upgrade for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G users, as well as second-generation iPod touch devices.
For ME's liveblog of the Steve Jobs keynote, with all the quotes and stats, click here.
