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Top 10 Countries with the Most Mobile Phone Subscriptions

The countries with the most active mobile phone subscriptions.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by mobile cellular subscriptions
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data
  1. China

    Data year 2024

    1.9B subscriptions

    No change
  2. India

    Data year 2024

    1.2B subscriptions

    No change
  3. United States

    Data year 2024

    391M subscriptions

    No change
  1. 4IndonesiaData year 2024347.3M subscriptionsNo change
  2. 5Russian FederationData year 2024269.5M subscriptionsNo change
  3. 6JapanData year 2024221.9M subscriptionsNo change
  4. 7BrazilData year 2024216.1M subscriptionsNo change
  5. 8PakistanData year 2024193.1M subscriptionsNo change
  6. 9BangladeshData year 2024187.6M subscriptionsNo change
  7. 10NigeriaData year 2024164.6M subscriptionsNo change
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  1. 11Iran, Islamic Rep.Data year 2024159.4M subscriptionsNo change
  2. 12MexicoData year 2024152.4M subscriptionsNo change
  3. 13PhilippinesData year 2024133.6M subscriptionsNo change
  4. 14Viet NamData year 2024128.9M subscriptionsNo change
  5. 15ThailandData year 2024115.1M subscriptionsNo change
  6. 16South AfricaData year 2024114.8M subscriptionsNo change
  7. 17Egypt, Arab Rep.Data year 2023113.2M subscriptionsNo change
  8. 18GermanyData year 2024109.2M subscriptionsNo change
  9. 19TurkiyeData year 202494.3M subscriptionsNo change
  10. 20ColombiaData year 202092.1M subscriptionsNo change
  11. 21Korea, Rep.Data year 202289.2M subscriptionsNo change
  12. 22TanzaniaData year 202486.8M subscriptionsNo change
  13. 23EthiopiaData year 202485.9M subscriptionsNo change
  14. 24United KingdomData year 202484.1M subscriptionsNo change
  15. 25ItalyData year 202478.7M subscriptionsNo change
  16. 26FranceData year 202477.5M subscriptionsNo change
  17. 27KenyaData year 202471.4M subscriptionsNo change
  18. 28ArgentinaData year 202464.1M subscriptionsNo change
  19. 29Congo, Dem. Rep.Data year 202464M subscriptionsNo change
  20. 30SpainData year 202462.4M subscriptionsNo change
  21. 31MyanmarData year 202462.3M subscriptionsNo change
  22. 32Cote d'IvoireData year 202458.7M subscriptionsNo change
  23. 33MoroccoData year 202458.3M subscriptionsNo change
  24. 34Saudi ArabiaData year 202454.2M subscriptionsNo change
  25. 35AlgeriaData year 202454.1M subscriptionsNo change
  26. 36PolandData year 202453.2M subscriptionsNo change
  27. 37UkraineData year 202450.3M subscriptionsNo change
  28. 38MalaysiaData year 202449.7M subscriptionsNo change
  29. 39IraqData year 202446.1M subscriptionsNo change
  30. 40PeruData year 202342.6M subscriptionsNo change
  31. 41UgandaData year 202441.6M subscriptionsNo change
  32. 42UzbekistanData year 202340.2M subscriptionsNo change
  33. 43GhanaData year 202439.1M subscriptionsNo change
  34. 44CanadaData year 202437.4M subscriptionsNo change
  35. 45SudanData year 202434.7M subscriptionsNo change
  36. 46CameroonData year 202431.5M subscriptionsNo change
  37. 47Sri LankaData year 202430.6M subscriptionsNo change
  38. 48AustraliaData year 202430.1M subscriptionsNo change
  39. 49NepalData year 202329.6M subscriptionsNo change
  40. 50Burkina FasoData year 202427.5M subscriptionsNo change

How this list is ranked

Mobile cellular subscriptions (World Bank indicator IT.CEL.SETS), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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