Mobile phone subscribers - Country rankings

The average for 2017 was 45.54 million subscribers.The highest value was in China: 1474.1 million subscribers and the lowest value was in Micronesia: 0.02 million subscribers. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available for: Mobile phone subscribers.

Mobile phone subscribers, in millions, 2017
(million subscribers, Source: The International Telecommunication Union, TheGlobalEconomy.com)

1. China

2. India

3. Indonesia

4. USA

5. Brazil

6. Russia

7. Japan

8. Bangladesh

9. Nigeria

10. Pakistan

11. Thailand

12. Vietnam

13. Philippines

14. Mexico

15. Germany

16. Egypt

17. South Africa

18. Iran

19. Italy

20. UK

21. Turkey

22. France

23. South Korea

24. Ethiopia

25. Colombia

26. Argentina

27. Ukraine

28. Spain

29. Algeria

30. Poland

31. Burma

32. Morocco

33. Kenya

34. Malaysia

35. Saudi Arabia

36. Tanzania

37. Peru

38. Ghana

39. Nepal

40. DR Congo

41. Iraq

42. Ivory Coast

43. Canada

44. Sudan

45. Sri Lanka

46. Australia

47. Kazakhstan

48. Uganda

49. Venezuela

50. Uzbekistan

51. Afghanistan

52. Chile

53. Romania

54. Netherlands

55. Guatemala

56. UA Emirates

57. Cameroon

58. Cambodia

59. Hong Kong

60. Burkina Faso

61. Senegal

62. Syria

63. Austria

64. Tunisia

65. Zimbabwe

66. Ecuador

67. Zambia

68. Angola

69. Greece

70. Czech Rep.

71. Sweden

72. Hungary

73. Belgium

74. Mozambique

75. Portugal

76. Belarus

77. Switzerland

78. Bolivia

79. Israel

80. Azerbaijan

81. El Salvador

82. Costa Rica

83. Rwanda

84. Niger

85. Benin

86. Domin. Rep.

87. Madagascar

88. Serbia

89. Bulgaria

90. Singapore

91. Honduras

92. Nicaragua

93. Malawi

94. Paraguay

95. Kyrgyzstan

96. Finland

97. Slovakia

98. Denmark

99. Oman

100. Haiti

101. New Zealand

102. Togo

103. Panama

104. Burundi

105. Georgia

106. Norway

107. Kuwait

108. Uruguay

109. R. of Congo

110. Ireland

111. Cuba

112. Lithuania

113. Croatia

114. Palestine

115. Mauritania

116. Qatar

117. Mongolia

118. Laos

119. Moldova

120. Albania

121. Armenia

122. Bosnia & Herz.

123. Puerto Rico

124. Botswana

125. Jamaica

126. Gabon

127. Namibia

128. Latvia

129. Slovenia

130. Lesotho

131. Bahrain

132. Macedonia

133. Tr.&Tobago

134. Estonia

135. Mauritius

136. G.-Bissau

137. Cyprus

138. Montenegro

139. Fiji

140. Maldives

141. Suriname

142. Luxembourg

143. Bhutan

144. Guyana

145. Cape Verde

146. Malta

147. Brunei

148. Solomon Isl.

149. Comoros

150. Iceland

151. Djibouti

152. Bahamas

153. Barbados

154. Vanuatu

155. Saint Lucia

156. S.T.&Principe

157. Seychelles

158. St. Vincent & ...

159. Samoa

160. Grenada

161. Andorra

162. Bermuda

163. Kiribati

164. Liechtenstein

165. Gibraltar

166. San Marino

167. Monaco

168. Micronesia

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.

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