Mobile subscriptions

Active mobile-phone subscriptions per 100 people.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
years covered: 1960–2024
subject: Digital

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Active subscriptions to a public mobile network, per 100 people. Routinely passes 100 because people hold two SIMs — one for work, or one per network to avoid call charges — so above about 90 the number stops telling you anything about how many people have a phone. Fiji reaches 574 per 100. Adoption rather than liberty, so it is not in the digital freedom index.

Ranked for 2024

134 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1960.

#	Country	Region	Mobile
1	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	574.2
2	Montenegro	Europe	221.7
3	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	203.2
4	Russia	Eurasia	186.1
5	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	183.9
6	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	179.3
7	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	177.4
8	El Salvador	Americas	176.5
9	Colombia	Americas	174.1
10	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	174.1
11	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	172.5
12	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	164.0
13	Georgia	Eurasia	161.2
14	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	160.6
15	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	159.5
16	Cyprus	Europe	156.2
17	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	153.6
18	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	153.1
19	Estonia	Europe	151.1
20	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	147.2
21	Uruguay	Americas	145.5
22	Suriname	Americas	142.1
23	Sweden	Europe	140.7
24	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	140.7
25	Argentina	Americas	140.2
26	Slovakia	Europe	140.0
27	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	139.8
28	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	139.7
29	Lithuania	Europe	138.7
30	Poland	Europe	138.0
31	Costa Rica	Americas	136.0
32	Armenia	Eurasia	134.9
33	Chile	Americas	132.7
34	Italy	Europe	132.6
35	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	132.6
36	China	Asia-Pacific	131.8
37	Belarus	Eurasia	131.1
38	Slovenia	Europe	130.9
39	Spain	Europe	130.3
40	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	130.1
41	Switzerland	Europe	129.5
42	Germany	Europe	129.2
43	Netherlands	Europe	128.5
44	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	127.6
45	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	127.1
46	Denmark	Europe	126.7
47	Czechia	Europe	126.6
48	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	126.6
49	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	126.5
50	Puerto Rico	Americas	126.4
51	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	126.2
52	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	125.9
53	Finland	Europe	125.9
54	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	125.3
55	Peru	Americas	124.6
56	Austria	Europe	124.5
57	Portugal	Europe	124.1
58	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	123.9
59	Serbia	Europe	123.8
60	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	122.5
61	Croatia	Europe	121.7
62	United Kingdom	Europe	121.6
63	Latvia	Europe	121.3
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	121.2
65	Iceland	Europe	120.9
66	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	120.6
67	Moldova	Eurasia	120.1
68	Romania	Europe	119.8
69	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	118.8
70	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	118.1
71	Bulgaria	Europe	118.1
72	Jamaica	Americas	117.7
73	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	117.6
74	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	116.6
75	Mexico	Americas	116.5
76	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	116.4
77	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	116.1
78	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	115.5
79	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	115.3
80	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	114.3
81	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	113.7
82	Greece	Europe	113.6
83	United States	Americas	113.2
84	Ireland	Europe	112.6
85	Australia	Asia-Pacific	112.6
86	Guatemala	Americas	112.5
87	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	110.5
88	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	109.5
89	Norway	Europe	109.4
90	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	108.7
91	North Macedonia	Europe	108.4
92	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	108.2
93	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	108.1
94	Turkey	Eurasia	107.8
95	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	107.5
96	Nicaragua	Americas	106.0
97	Hungary	Europe	104.6
98	Belgium	Europe	103.9
99	Brazil	Americas	101.9
100	Ecuador	Americas	101.6
101	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	100.1
102	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	99.8
103	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	99.8
104	Bolivia	Americas	98.0
105	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	97.1
106	Bahamas	Americas	96.7
107	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	95.5
108	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	94.2
109	Canada	Americas	94.1
110	Dominican Republic	Americas	93.7
111	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	93.2
112	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	92.1
113	Albania	Europe	89.1
114	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	85.2
115	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	83.2
116	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	80.8
117	India	Asia-Pacific	79.4
118	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	76.9
119	Cuba	Americas	72.9
120	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	72.9
121	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	71.2
122	Venezuela	Americas	71.0
123	Honduras	Americas	70.9
124	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	70.8
125	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	70.3
126	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	69.7
127	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	69.6
128	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	69.3
129	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.1
130	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	60.6
131	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	60.1
132	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	58.5
133	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	49.5
134	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	38.8

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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