The CIA World Factbook Edition 2005 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 2005 edition carries it in 238 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2005 edition: 238
the first edition with it: 2000
the latest edition with it: 2025

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

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2005

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World

1 entry

World

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

1,447,310 (2003)

Angola

130,000 (2002)

Benin

236,200 (2003)

Botswana

435,000 (2002)

Burkina Faso

227,000 (2003)

Burundi

64,000 (2003)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

53,300 (2003)

Cameroon

1.077 million (2003)

Central African Republic

13,000 (2003)

Chad

65,000 (2003)

Comoros

2,000 (2003)

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

1 million (2003)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

330,000 (2003)

Cote d'Ivoire

1.236 million (2003)

Djibouti

23,000 (2003)

Egypt

8,583,940 (2005)

Equatorial Guinea

41,500 (2003)

Eritrea

Swaziland now Eswatini

88,000 (2003)

Ethiopia

97,800 (2003)

Gabon

300,000 (2003)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

100,000 (2002)

Ghana

799,900 (2003)

Guinea

111,500 (2003)

Guinea-Bissau

1,300 (2003)

Kenya

1,590,800 (2003)

Lesotho

92,000 (2002)

Liberia

2,000 (2001)

Libya

100,000 (2003)

Madagascar

279,500 (2003)

Malawi

135,100 (2003)

Mali

250,000 (2003)

Mauritania

300,000 (2003)

Mauritius

462,400 (2003)

Mayotte

21,700 (2002)

Morocco

7,332,800 (2003)

Mozambique

428,900 (2003)

Namibia

223,700 (2003)

Niger

24,000 (2003)

Nigeria

3,149,500 (2003)

Reunion

489,800 (2002)

Rwanda

134,000

note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several provincial capitals (2003)

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

0 (1997)

Sao Tome and Principe

4,800 (2003)

Senegal

575,900 (2003)

Seychelles

54,500 (2003)

Sierra Leone

67,000 (2002)

Somalia

35,000 (2002)

South Africa

16.86 million (2003)

Sudan

650,000 (2003)

Tanzania

891,200 (2003)

Togo

220,000 (2003)

Tunisia

1,899,900 (2003)

Uganda

776,200 (2003)

Western Sahara

0 (1999)

Zambia

241,000 (2003)

Zimbabwe

379,100 (2003)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Antarctica

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

16,747 (2001)

Iceland

279,100 (2003)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

15,000 (2002)

Armenia

114,400 (2003)

Azerbaijan

870,000 (2002)

Bangladesh

1.365 million (2003)

Bhutan

22,000 (2005)

China

269 million (2003)

Georgia

522,300 (2003)

India

26,154,400 (2003)

Japan

86,658,600 (2003)

Kazakhstan

1.027 million (2002)

Korea, North now North Korea

Korea, South now South Korea

33,591,800 (2003)

Kyrgyzstan

53,100 (2002)

Maldives

41,900 (2002)

Mongolia

404,400 (2004)

Nepal

50,400 (2003)

Pakistan

2,624,800 (2003)

Russia

17,608,800 (2002)

Sri Lanka

931,600 (2002)

Tajikistan

47,600 (2003)

Turkmenistan

52,000 (2004)

Uzbekistan

320,800 (2003)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

1,800 (2002)

Antigua and Barbuda

38,200 (2002)

Aruba

53,000 (2001)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

121,800 (2002)

Barbados

140,000 (2003)

Belize

60,400 (2003)

British Virgin Islands

8,000 (2002)

Cayman Islands

17,000 (2002)

Costa Rica

528,047 (2002)

Cuba

17,900 (2002)

Dominica

9,400 (2002)

Dominican Republic

2,120,400 (2003)

El Salvador

1,149,800 (2003)

Grenada

7,600 (2002)

Guadeloupe

323,500 (2002)

Guatemala

1,577,100 (2002)

Haiti

140,000 (2002)

Honduras

326,500 (2002)

Jamaica

1.4 million (2002)

Martinique

319,900 (2002)

Montserrat

70 (1994)

Netherlands Antilles

81,000 (2001)

Nicaragua

202,800 (2002)

Panama

834,000 (2003)

Puerto Rico

1,211,111 (2001)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

5,000 (2002)

Saint Lucia

14,300 (2002)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

10,000 (2002)

Trinidad and Tobago

361,900 (2002)

Turks and Caicos Islands

1,700 (1999)

Virgin Islands

41,000 (2002)

Europe

47 entries

Albania

1.1 million (2003)

Andorra

23,500 (2001)

Austria

7,094,500 (2003)

Belarus

1.118 million (2003)

Belgium

8,135,500 (2002)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.05 million (2003)

Bulgaria

2,597,500 (2002)

Croatia

2.553 million (2003)

Czech Republic now Czechia

9,708,700 (2003)

Denmark

4,785,300 (2003)

Estonia

881,000 (2002)

European Union

314,644,700 (2002)

Faroe Islands

30,700 (2002)

Finland

4.7 million (2003)

France

41,683,100 (2003)

Germany

64.8 million (2003)

Gibraltar

9,797 (2002)

Greece

8,936,200 (2003)

Guernsey

31,500 (2001)

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hungary

6,862,800 (2002)

Ireland

3.4 million (2003)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

Italy

55.918 million (2003)

Jersey

61,400 (2001)

Latvia

1,219,600 (2003)

Liechtenstein

11,400 (2002)

Lithuania

2,169,900 (2003)

Luxembourg

473,000 (2002)

Malta

290,000 (2003)

Moldova

338,200 (2002)

Monaco

19,300 (2002)

Netherlands

12.5 million (2003)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

830,000 (2005)

Norway

4,163,400 (2003)

Poland

17.401 million (2003)

Portugal

9,341,400 (2003)

Romania

6.9 million (2003)

San Marino

16,800 (2002)

Serbia and Montenegro

3,634,600 (2003)

Slovakia

3,678,800 (2003)

Slovenia

1,739,100 (2003)

Spain

37,506,700 (2003)

Sweden

7.949 million (2002)

Switzerland

6.172 million (2003)

Ukraine

4.2 million (2002)

United Kingdom

49.677 million (2002)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

443,100 (2003)

Cyprus

Republic of Cyprus:: 417,900 (2002); north Cyprus: 143,178 (2002)

Gaza Strip

320,000 (cellular subscribers in both Gaza Strip and West Bank) (2002)

Iran

3,376,500 (2003)

Iraq

20,000 (2002)

Israel

6.334 million (2002)

Jordan

1,325,300 (2003)

Kuwait

1.42 million (2003)

Lebanon

775,100 (2002)

Oman

464,900 (2002)

Qatar

376,500 (2003)

Saudi Arabia

7,238,200 (2003)

Syria

400,000 (2002)

Turkey now Turkiye

27,887,500 (2003)

United Arab Emirates

2,972,300 (2003)

West Bank

480,000 (cellular subscribers in both West Bank and Gaza Strip) (2003)

Yemen

411,100 (2002)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

37,873 (2003)

Canada

13,221,800 (2003)

Mexico

28.125 million (2003)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

0 (1994)

United States

158.722 million (2003)

Oceania

24 entries

American Samoa

2,377 (1999)

Australia

14.347 million (2003)

Cook Islands

1,500 (2002)

Fiji

109,900 (2003)

French Polynesia

90,000 (2002)

Guam

32,600 (2001)

Kiribati

500 (2002)

Marshall Islands

600 (2002)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

1,800 (2002)

Nauru

1,500 (2002)

New Caledonia

80,000 (2002)

New Zealand

2.599 million (2003)

Niue

400 (2002)

Norfolk Island

0 (proposed cellular service disallowed in August 2002 island referendum) (2002)

Northern Mariana Islands

3,000 (2000)

Palau

1,000 (2002)

Papua New Guinea

15,000 (2002)

Samoa

2,700 (2002)

Solomon Islands

1,000 (2002)

Tokelau

0 (2001)

Tonga

9,000 (2004)

Tuvalu

0 (2004)

Vanuatu

7,800 (2003)

Wallis and Futuna

0 (1994)

South America

14 entries

Argentina

6.5 million (2002)

Bolivia

1,401,500 (2003)

Brazil

46,373,300 (2003)

Chile

6,445,700 (2002)

Colombia

6,186,200 (2003)

Ecuador

2,394,400 (2003)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

0 (2001)

French Guiana

138,200 (2002)

Guyana

87,300 (2002)

Paraguay

1,770,300 (2003)

Peru

2,908,800 (2003)

Suriname

168,100 (2003)

Uruguay

652,000 (2002)

Venezuela

6,463,600 (2002)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

137,000 (2002)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

66,500 (2003)

Cambodia

380,000 (2002)

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

note - analog cellular service available

Hong Kong

7,241,400 (2003)

Indonesia

11.7 million (2002)

Laos

55,200 (2002)

Macau

364,000 (2003)

Malaysia

11,124,100 (2003)

Philippines

15.201 million (2002)

Singapore

3,521,800 (2004)

Taiwan

25,089,600 (2003)

Thailand

26.5 million (2005)

East Timor now Timor-Leste

Vietnam

2.742 million (2003)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2005, “Telephones - mobile cellular”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-mobile-cellular/2005.

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