* indicates monthly or quarterly data series

Mobile phone subscribers, in millions, 2024:

The average for 2024 based on 17 countries was 42.23 million subscribers. The highest value was in Brazil: 216.08 million subscribers and the lowest value was in Puerto Rico: 4.1 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
Select indicator
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series


Countries Mobile phone subscribers, 2024 Global rank Available data
Brazil 216.08 1 1960 - 2024
Mexico 152.44 2 1960 - 2024
Colombia 92.07 3 1960 - 2024
Argentina 64.08 4 1960 - 2024
Peru 42.64 5 1960 - 2024
Chile 26.22 6 1960 - 2024
Guatemala 20.71 7 1960 - 2024
Venezuela 20.17 8 1960 - 2024
Ecuador 18.43 9 1960 - 2024
Bolivia 12.17 10 1960 - 2024
El Salvador 11.19 11 1960 - 2024
Domin. Rep. 10.71 12 1960 - 2024
Honduras 7.68 13 1960 - 2024
Nicaragua 7.33 14 1960 - 2024
Costa Rica 6.98 15 1960 - 2024
Uruguay 4.93 16 1960 - 2024
Puerto Rico 4.1 17 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.

Selected articles from our guide:

Are trade deficits bad for the economy?

Sources of economic growth

Currency values and investment returns

How to write an economics research paper

All articles

This site uses cookies.
Learn more here


OK