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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
151 Papua New Guinea 39
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.