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South Sudan
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#171out of 172 countries
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Historical trend

48.540.231.923.715.4201020172023South Sudan · 2023: 47South Sudan

Analytical takeaways

  • South Sudan records 47 for Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) in 2023, ranking #171 globally out of 172 countries.
  • Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) increased from 15 in 2010 to 47 in 2023, a gain of 31.
  • 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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