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Somalia, Fed. Rep.
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.

Global rank#165out of 172 countries
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Historical trend

54.040.527.013.50.0196019922023Somalia, Fed. Rep. · 2023: 54Somalia, Fed. Rep.

Analytical takeaways

  • Somalia, Fed. Rep. records 54 for Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) in 2023, ranking #165 globally out of 172 countries.
  • Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) increased from 0 in 1960 to 54 in 2023, a gain of 54.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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