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Mobile phone subscribers, in millions, 2021 - Country rankings:

The average for 2021 based on 41 countries was 24.03 million subscribers.The highest value was in Russia: 246.57 million subscribers and the lowest value was in Monaco: 0.04 million subscribers. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2021. 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, 2021 Global rank Available data
Russia 246.57 1 1960 - 2021
Germany 106.4 2 1960 - 2021
Turkey 86.29 3 1960 - 2021
UK 79.77 4 1960 - 2021
Italy 78.11 5 1960 - 2021
Spain 56.81 6 1960 - 2021
Ukraine 55.93 7 1960 - 2021
Poland 50.59 8 1960 - 2021
Romania 22.93 9 1960 - 2021
Netherlands 21.89 10 1960 - 2021
Czechia 13.13 11 1960 - 2021
Sweden 12.84 12 1960 - 2021
Portugal 12.48 13 1960 - 2021
Belarus 11.76 14 1960 - 2021
Belgium 11.74 15 1960 - 2021
Greece 11.49 16 1960 - 2021
Switzerland 11.06 17 1960 - 2021
Austria 10.88 18 1960 - 2021
Hungary 10.25 19 1960 - 2021
Serbia 8.5 20 2004 - 2021
Bulgaria 7.9 21 1960 - 2021
Slovakia 7.36 22 1960 - 2021
Denmark 7.29 23 1960 - 2021
Finland 7.15 24 1960 - 2021
Ireland 5.37 25 1960 - 2021
Croatia 4.4 26 1960 - 2021
Moldova 3.9 27 1960 - 2021
Bosnia & Herz. 3.73 28 1960 - 2021
Lithuania 3.73 29 1960 - 2021
Albania 2.64 30 1960 - 2021
Slovenia 2.61 31 1960 - 2021
Latvia 2.16 32 1960 - 2021
Estonia 1.98 33 1960 - 2021
North Macedonia 1.94 34 1960 - 2021
Cyprus 1.32 35 1960 - 2021
Montenegro 1.12 36 2004 - 2021
Malta 0.64 37 1960 - 2021
Iceland 0.44 38 1960 - 2021
Liechtenstein 0.05 39 1990 - 2021
Monaco 0.04 40 1960 - 2021
San Marino 0.04 41 1990 - 2021


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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