* indicates monthly or quarterly data series

Mobile phone subscribers, in millions, 2024:

The average for 2024 based on 38 countries was 129.3 million subscribers. The highest value was in China: 1870.01 million subscribers and the lowest value was in Brunei: 0.55 million subscribers. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: million subscribers; Source: The International Telecommunication Union
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Countries Mobile phone subscribers, 2024 Global rank Available data
China 1870.01 1 1960 - 2024
India 1151.36 2 1960 - 2024
Indonesia 347.32 3 1960 - 2024
Pakistan 193.11 4 1960 - 2024
Bangladesh 187.58 5 1960 - 2024
Iran 159.39 6 1960 - 2024
Philippines 133.57 7 1960 - 2024
Vietnam 128.87 8 1960 - 2024
Thailand 115.13 9 1960 - 2024
South Korea 89.22 10 1960 - 2024
Burma 62.31 11 1960 - 2024
Saudi Arabia 54.18 12 1990 - 2024
Malaysia 49.66 13 1960 - 2024
Iraq 46.08 14 1960 - 2024
Uzbekistan 40.18 15 1960 - 2024
Sri Lanka 30.62 16 1960 - 2024
Nepal 29.61 17 1960 - 2024
Hong Kong 27.05 18 1960 - 2024
Kazakhstan 26.17 19 1960 - 2024
Afghanistan 25.63 20 1960 - 2024
UA Emirates 22.41 21 1982 - 2024
Cambodia 20.48 22 1960 - 2024
Syria 17.57 23 1960 - 2024
Israel 16.65 24 1990 - 2024
Azerbaijan 11.32 25 1960 - 2024
Singapore 9.96 26 1960 - 2024
Jordan 8.05 27 1960 - 2024
Kyrgyzstan 7.72 28 1960 - 2024
Oman 6.35 29 1960 - 2024
Georgia 6.14 30 1960 - 2024
Mongolia 4.89 31 1960 - 2024
Qatar 4.68 32 1960 - 2024
Armenia 4.01 33 1960 - 2024
Bahrain 2.56 34 1960 - 2024
Macao 1.45 35 1960 - 2024
Bhutan 0.79 36 1960 - 2024
Maldives 0.78 37 1960 - 2024
Brunei 0.55 38 1960 - 2024


New - World map: Mobile phone subscribers




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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