Afghanistan: Mobile phone subscribers

The latest value from 2021 is 22.68 million subscribers, unchanged from 22.68 million subscribers in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 43.10 million subscribers, based on data from 196 countries. Historically, the average for Afghanistan from 1960 to 2021 is 5.15 million subscribers. The minimum value, 0 million subscribers, was reached in 1960 while the maximum of 23.93 million subscribers was recorded in 2017. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

Definition: 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.