* indicates monthly or quarterly data series

Mobile phone subscribers, in millions, 2024:

The average for 2024 based on 25 countries was 19.62 million subscribers. The highest value was in Germany: 109.2 million subscribers and the lowest value was in Malta: 0.77 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
Germany 109.2 1 1960 - 2024
Italy 78.67 2 1960 - 2024
Spain 62.41 3 1960 - 2024
Poland 53.19 4 1960 - 2024
Netherlands 23.43 5 1960 - 2024
Romania 22.78 6 1960 - 2024
Sweden 14.92 7 1960 - 2024
Czechia 13.59 8 1960 - 2024
Portugal 12.94 9 1960 - 2024
Belgium 12.2 10 1960 - 2024
Greece 11.41 11 1960 - 2024
Austria 11.35 12 1960 - 2024
Hungary 10.12 13 1960 - 2024
Bulgaria 7.98 14 1960 - 2024
Slovakia 7.71 15 1960 - 2024
Denmark 7.57 16 1960 - 2024
Finland 7.07 17 1960 - 2024
Ireland 5.92 18 1960 - 2024
Croatia 4.72 19 1960 - 2024
Lithuania 3.97 20 1960 - 2024
Slovenia 2.77 21 1960 - 2024
Latvia 2.27 22 1960 - 2024
Estonia 2.06 23 1960 - 2024
Cyprus 1.51 24 1960 - 2024
Malta 0.77 25 1960 - 2024


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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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