Mobile phone subscribers - Country rankings

(measure: million subscribers; Source: The International Telecommunication Union)

* indicates monthly or quarterly data series

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The average for 2017 was 39.85 million subscribers.The highest value was in China: 1469.88 million subscribers and the lowest value was in Tuvalu: 0.01 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. Colombia

25. Argentina

26. Ukraine

27. Spain

28. Poland

29. Burma

30. Algeria

31. Morocco

32. Kenya

33. Malaysia

34. Saudi Arabia

35. Tanzania

36. Ethiopia

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. Venezuela

49. Uganda

50. Uzbekistan

51. Afghanistan

52. Chile

53. Romania

54. Mali

55. Netherlands

56. Cameroon

57. Guatemala

58. UA Emirates

59. Cambodia

60. Hong Kong

61. Burkina Faso

62. Senegal

63. Syria

64. Yemen

65. Austria

66. Ecuador

67. Tunisia

68. Zimbabwe

69. Zambia

70. Angola

71. Greece

72. Czech Rep.

73. Sweden

74. Belgium

75. Mozambique

76. Portugal

77. Guinea

78. Belarus

79. Switzerland

80. Hungary

81. Bolivia

82. Israel

83. Azerbaijan

84. El Salvador

85. Tajikistan

86. Jordan

87. Turkmenistan

88. Costa Rica

89. Rwanda

90. Niger

91. Benin

92. Domin. Rep.

93. Madagascar

94. Serbia

95. Bulgaria

96. Singapore

97. Honduras

98. Nicaragua

99. Malawi

100. Paraguay

101. Kyrgyzstan

102. Finland

103. Kuwait

104. Slovakia

105. Somalia

106. Denmark

107. Oman

108. Sierra Leone

109. New Zealand

110. Chad

111. Haiti

112. Togo

113. Libya

114. Burundi

115. Norway

116. Georgia

117. Panama

118. Uruguay

119. R. of Congo

120. Ireland

121. Cuba

122. Lebanon

123. Lithuania

124. Croatia

125. Mauritania

126. Papua N.G.

127. Palestine

128. Qatar

129. Mongolia

130. North Korea

131. Laos

132. Moldova

133. Albania

134. Armenia

135. Bosnia & Herz.

136. Puerto Rico

137. Botswana

138. Jamaica

139. Gambia

140. Namibia

141. Gabon

142. Liberia

143. Latvia

144. Slovenia

145. Bahrain

146. Macao

147. Tr.&Tobago

148. Macedonia

149. Estonia

150. Mauritius

151. Lesotho

152. G.-Bissau

153. C.A. Republic

154. Cyprus

155. Swaziland

156. Montenegro

157. Fiji

158. Maldives

159. Suriname

160. Luxembourg

161. Bhutan

162. Eritrea

163. Guyana

164. Cape Verde

165. Malta

166. Eq. Guinea

167. Brunei

168. Comoros

169. Solomon Isl.

170. Iceland

171. Djibouti

172. Bahamas

173. Barbados

174. Belize

175. Vanuatu

176. Ant.& Barb.

177. Saint Lucia

178. S.T.&Principe

179. Seychelles

180. St. Vincent & ...

181. Samoa

182. Grenada

183. Tonga

184. Andorra

185. Dominica

186. Bermuda

187. Faroe Isl.

188. Kiribati

189. Liechtenstein

190. Gibraltar

191. San Marino

192. Monaco

193. Micronesia

194. Tuvalu

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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