The CIA World Factbook Edition 2001 Communications

Telephones - mobile cellular In 26 editions of 36.

Telephones - mobile cellular was published in 26 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2000 to 2025. The 2001 edition carries it in 236 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2001 edition
236
the first edition with it
2000
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Telephones - mobile cellular” (2000 to 2025).

the entry has the field in that editionnot in that editionthe open editionEach entry below ends in its editions with Telephones - mobile cellular, 1990 to 2025. Point at a year above to follow it down; choose one in a row to read that edition’s text there.

Entries with Telephones - mobile cellular in each edition

19902000201020202025

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World

1 entry

World

NA

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

33,500 (1999)

Angola

7,052 (1997)

Benin

4,295 (1997)

Botswana

NA

Burkina Faso

1,503 (1997)

Burundi

619 (1997)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

19,729 (1997)

Cameroon

4,200 (1997)

Central African Republic

570 (1997)

Chad

NA

Comoros

NA

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

8,900 (1997)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

1,000 (1996)

Cote d'Ivoire

322,500 (May 2000)

Djibouti

203 (1997)

Egypt

380,000 (1999)

Equatorial Guinea

NA

Eritrea

NA

Swaziland now Eswatini

30,000 (2000)

Ethiopia

4,000 (1999)

Gabon

9,500 (1997)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

5,624 (2000)

Ghana

30,000 (yearend 1998)

Guinea

2,868 (1997)

Guinea-Bissau

NA

Kenya

5,345 (1997)

Lesotho

1,262 (1996)

Liberia

0 (1995)

Libya

NA

Madagascar

4,000 (1997)

Malawi

7,000 (1997)

Mali

2,842 (1997)

Mauritania

NA

Mauritius

37,000 (1997)

Mayotte

0 (2000)

Morocco

116,645 (1998)

Mozambique

18,500 (2000)

Namibia

NA

Niger

13,000 (1995)

Nigeria

26,700 (1997)

Reunion

85,000 (1999)

Rwanda

NA note:
however, Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several prefecture capitals (2000)

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

0 (1997)

Sao Tome and Principe

6,942 (1997)

Senegal

1,149 (1996)

Seychelles

16,316 (1999)

Sierra Leone

650 (1999)

Somalia

NA

South Africa

  • over 2,000,000 (1999)

Sudan

20,000 (2000)

Tanzania

30,000 (1999)

Togo

2,995 (1997)

Tunisia

50,000 (1998)

Uganda

9,000 (1998)

Western Sahara

0 (1999)

Zambia

6,000 (1998)

Zimbabwe

70,000 (1999)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

12,676 (end 1999)

Iceland

65,746 (1997)

Svalbard

NA

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

NA

Armenia

6,220 (1997)

Azerbaijan

40,000 (1997)

Bangladesh

283,000 (2000)

Bhutan

NA

China

65 million (January 2001)

Georgia

30,000 (1997)

India

2.93 million (November 2000)

Japan

63.88 million (2000)

Kazakhstan

11,202 (1997)

Korea, North now North Korea

NA

Korea, South now South Korea

27 million (June 2000)

Kyrgyzstan

NA

Maldives

1,290 (1997)

Mongolia

110,000 (2001)

Nepal

NA

Pakistan

158,000 (1998)

Russia

2.5 million (October 2000)

Sri Lanka

228,604 (1999)

Tajikistan

2,500 (1997)

Turkmenistan

4,300 (1998)

Uzbekistan

26,000 (1998)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

NA

Antigua and Barbuda

1,300 (1996)

Aruba

3,402 (1997)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

6,152 (1997)

Barbados

8,013 (1997)

Belize

3,023 (1997)

British Virgin Islands

NA

Cayman Islands

2,534 (1995)

Costa Rica

143,000 (2000)

Cuba

2,994 (1997)

Dominica

461 (1996)

Dominican Republic

130,149 (1997)

El Salvador

40,163 (1997)

Grenada

976 (1997)

Guadeloupe

NA

Guatemala

663,296 (September 2000)

Haiti

0 (1995)

Honduras

14,427 (1997)

Jamaica

54,640 (1996)

Martinique

15,000 (1997)

Montserrat

70 (1994)

Netherlands Antilles

13,977 (1996)

Nicaragua

7,911 (1997)

Panama

17,000 (1997)

Puerto Rico

169,265 (1996)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

205 (1997)

Saint Lucia

1,600 (1997)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

NA

Trinidad and Tobago

17,411 (1997)

Turks and Caicos Islands

0 (1994)

Virgin Islands

2,000 (1992)

Europe

46 entries

Albania

3,100 (1999)

Andorra

14,117 (December 1998)

Austria

4.5 million (2000)

Belarus

8,167 (1997)

Belgium

974,494 (1997)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

9,000 (1997)

Bulgaria

596,000 (2000)

Croatia

187,000 (yearend 1998)

Czech Republic now Czechia

4.346 million (2000)

Denmark

1,444,016 (1997)

Estonia

475,000 (yearend 2000)

Faroe Islands

10,761 (1999)

Finland

2,162,574 (1997)

France

11.078 million (yearend 1998)

Germany

15.318 million (April 1999)

Gibraltar

1,620 (1997)

Greece

937,700 (1997)

Guernsey

12,000 (1997)

Holy See (Vatican City)

NA

Hungary

1.269 million (July 1999)

Ireland

2 million (2001)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

NA

Italy

20.5 million (1999)

Jersey

4,400 (1997)

Latvia

77,100 (1997)

Liechtenstein

NA

Lithuania

297,500 (November 1998)

Luxembourg

215,741 (2000)

Malta

17,691 (1997)

Moldova

2,200 (1997)

Monaco

NA

Netherlands

4,081,891 (April 1999)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia

12,362 (1997)

Norway

2,080,408 (1998)

Poland

1.78 million (1998)

Portugal

3,074,194 (1999)

Romania

645,500 (1999)

San Marino

3,010 (1998)

Yugoslavia now Serbia and Montenegro

87,000 (1997)

Slovakia

736,662 (April 1999)

Slovenia

1 million (2000)

Spain

8.394 million (1999)

Sweden

3.835 million (October 1998)

Switzerland

1.967 million (1999)

Ukraine

236,000 (1998)

United Kingdom

13 million (yearend 1998)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

58,543 (1997)

Cyprus

Greek Cypriot area:
68,000 (1998);

Gaza Strip

NA

Iran

265,000 (August 1998)

Iraq

  • NA; service available in northern Iraq (2001)

Israel

2.5 million (1999)

Jordan

11,500 (1995)

Kuwait

210,000 (1997)

Lebanon

580,000 (1999)

Oman

59,822 (1997)

Qatar

43,476 (1997)

Saudi Arabia

  • 1 million note: in 1998, the government contracted for the installation of 575,000 additional Group Speciale Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone lines over 15 months to raise the total number of subscribers to more than one million;
  • Riyadh planned to further expand the GSM system in 1999 by adding an additional one million lines (1998)

Syria

NA

Turkey now Turkiye

12.1 million (1999)

United Arab Emirates

1 million (1999)

West Bank

NA

Yemen

32,042 (2000)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

7,980 (1996)

Canada

4.207 million (1997)

Mexico

2.02 million (1998)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

0 (1994)

United States

69.209 million (1998)

Oceania

24 entries

American Samoa

2,550 (1997)

Australia

6.4 million (1998)

Cook Islands

0 (1994)

Fiji

5,200 (1997)

French Polynesia

5,427 (1997)

Guam

55,000 (1998)

Kiribati

NA

Marshall Islands

365 (1996)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

NA

Nauru

450 (1994)

New Caledonia

13,040 (1998)

New Zealand

588,000 (1998)

Niue

0 (1991)

Norfolk Island

0 (1983)

Northern Mariana Islands

1,200 (1995)

Palau

0 (1988)

Papua New Guinea

3,053 (1996)

Samoa

1,545 (February 1998)

Solomon Islands

658 (1997)

Tokelau

0 (2001)

Tonga

302 (1996)

Tuvalu

0 (1994)

Vanuatu

154 (1996)

Wallis and Futuna

0 (1994)

South America

14 entries

Argentina

3 million (December 1999)

Bolivia

116,000 (1997)

Brazil

4.4 million (1997)

Chile

944,225 (1998)

Colombia

1,800,229 (December 1998)

Ecuador

160,061 (1997)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

NA

French Guiana

NA

Guyana

6,100 (2000)

Paraguay

510,000 (2001)

Peru

504,995 (1998)

Suriname

4,090 (1997)

Uruguay

300,000 (2000)

Venezuela

2 million (1998)

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

43,524 (1996)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

8,492 (1997)

Cambodia

80,000 (2000)

Christmas Island

0 (1999)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

0 (1999)

Hong Kong

3.7 million (December 1999)

Indonesia

1.07 million (1998)

Laos

4,915 (1997)

Macau

120,957 (2000)

Malaysia

2.698 million (1999)

Philippines

1.959 million (1998)

Singapore

2.333 million (November 2000)

Taiwan

16 million (September 2000)

Thailand

2.3 million (1998)

Vietnam

730,155 (2000)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2001, “Telephones - mobile cellular”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-mobile-cellular/2001.

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