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Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)

For 2024, Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) is led by Fiji at 574. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

Countries ranked 151
Snapshot year 2024
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0.0144287431574FijiFiji: 574574Hong Kong SAR, ChinaHong Kong SAR, China: 365365MontenegroMontenegro: 222222United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates: 203203Macao SAR, ChinaMacao SAR, China: 201201Russian FederationRussian Federation: 186186Cote d'IvoireCote d'Ivoire: 184184South AfricaSouth Africa: 179179IsraelIsrael: 177177El SalvadorEl Salvador: 177177ColombiaColombia: 174174Iran, Islamic Rep.Iran, Islamic Rep.: 174174
Rank Country Value
51 Liechtenstein 129
52 Netherlands 129
53 Viet Nam 128
54 Kazakhstan 127
55 Denmark 127
56 Czechia 127
57 Tanzania 127
58 Kenya 126
59 Puerto Rico (US) 126
60 Gambia, The 126
61 Benin 126
62 Finland 126
63 Seychelles 126
64 Gabon 125
65 Peru 125
66 Austria 124
67 Portugal 124
68 Senegal 124
69 Serbia 124
70 Indonesia 123
71 Croatia 122
72 United Kingdom 122
73 Latvia 121
74 Bosnia and Herzegovina 121
75 Iceland 121
76 Oman 121
77 Moldova 120
78 Romania 120
79 Trinidad and Tobago 119
80 Brunei Darussalam 118
81 Bulgaria 118
82 Jamaica 118
83 Tunisia 118
84 Burkina Faso 117
85 Mexico 116
86 Timor-Leste 116
87 Cambodia 116
88 Algeria 115
89 Philippines 115
90 Myanmar 114
91 Ghana 114
92 Greece 114
93 United States 113
94 Ireland 113
95 Australia 113
96 Guatemala 113
97 Cabo Verde 112
98 Uzbekistan 110
99 Azerbaijan 110
100 Norway 109
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Fiji sits at the top of the Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) distribution in 2024 at 574, with a lead of 209 over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Oman at 121, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Papua New Guinea (39), and the page currently covers 151 countries.