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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
101 Zambia 109
102 North Macedonia 108
103 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 108
104 Cameroon 108
105 Bangladesh 108
106 Turkiye 108
107 Kyrgyz Republic 107
108 Monaco 107
109 Nicaragua 106
110 Hungary 105
111 Belgium 104
112 Brazil 102
113 Ecuador 102
114 Iraq 100
115 Nepal 100
116 Bhutan 100
117 Bolivia 98
118 Egypt, Arab Rep. 97
119 Bahamas, The 97
120 Bermuda 97
121 Congo, Rep. 96
122 Zimbabwe 94
123 Canada 94
124 Dominican Republic 94
125 Rwanda 93
126 British Virgin Islands 93
127 Mauritania 92
128 Albania 89
129 Namibia 85
130 Uganda 83
131 Togo 81
132 India 79
133 Pakistan 77
134 Cuba 73
135 Chad 73
136 Syrian Arab Republic 71
137 Venezuela, RB 71
138 Honduras 71
139 Nigeria 71
140 Lesotho 70
141 Angola 70
142 Jordan 70
143 Malawi 69
144 Ethiopia 65
145 Sao Tome and Principe 62
146 Niger 61
147 Afghanistan 60
148 Congo, Dem. Rep. 59
149 Kiribati 54
150 Mozambique 50
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.