The CIA World Factbook Edition 2006 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 2006 edition carries it in 239 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2006 edition: 239
the first edition with it: 2000
the latest edition with it: 2025

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

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2006

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World

1 entry

World

2,168,433,600 (2005)

Africa

57 entries

Algeria

13.661 million (2005)

Angola

1,094,100 (2005)

Benin

386,700 (2005)

Botswana

823,100 (2005)

Burkina Faso

572,200 (2005)

Burundi

153,000 (2005)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

81,700 (2005)

Cameroon

2.259 million (2005)

Central African Republic

60,000 (2004)

Chad

210,000 (2005)

Comoros

16,100 (2005)

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

2.746 million (2005)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

490,000 (2005)

Cote d'Ivoire

2.19 million (2005)

Djibouti

34,500 (2004)

Egypt

14,045,134 (2005)

Equatorial Guinea

96,900 (2005)

Eritrea

40,400 (2005)

Swaziland now Eswatini

200,000 (2005)

Ethiopia

410,600 (2005)

Gabon

649,800 (2005)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

247,500 (2005)

Ghana

2.842 million (2005)

Guinea

189,000 (2005)

Guinea-Bissau

67,000 (2005)

Kenya

4.612 million (2005)

Lesotho

245,100 (2005)

Liberia

160,000 (2005)

Libya

234,800 (2004)

Madagascar

504,700 (2005)

Malawi

429,300 (2005)

Mali

869,600 (2005)

Mauritania

745,600 (2005)

Mauritius

713,300 (2005)

Mayotte

48,100 (2004)

Morocco

12.393 million (2005)

Mozambique

1.22 million (2005)

Namibia

495,000 (2005)

Niger

299,900 (2005)

Nigeria

21,571,131 (2006)

Reunion

579,200 (2004)

Rwanda

290,000

note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several provincial capitals (2005)

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

Sao Tome and Principe

12,000 (2005)

Senegal

1.73 million (2005)

Seychelles

57,000 (2005)

Sierra Leone

113,200 (2003)

Somalia

500,000 (2005)

South Africa

33.96 million (2005)

Sudan

1.828 million (2005)

Tanzania

1.942 million (2005)

Togo

443,600 (2005)

Tunisia

5.681 million (2005)

Uganda

1.525 million (2005)

Western Sahara

0 (1999)

Zambia

946,600 (2005)

Zimbabwe

699,000 (2005)

Antarctic Region

1 entry

Antarctica

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

32,200 (2004)

Iceland

304,000 (2005)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

1.2 million (2005)

Armenia

320,000 (2005)

Azerbaijan

2.242 million (2005)

Bangladesh

9 million (2005)

Bhutan

37,800 (2005)

China

393.428 million (2005)

Georgia

1.459 million (2005)

India

69,193,321 (2006)

Japan

94.745 million (2005)

Kazakhstan

4.955 million (2005)

Korea, North now North Korea

Korea, South now South Korea

38.342 million (2005)

Kyrgyzstan

541,700 (2005)

Maldives

153,400 (2005)

Mongolia

557,200 (2005)

Nepal

248,800 (2005)

Pakistan

12.771 million (2005)

Russia

120 million (2005)

Sri Lanka

3.362 million (2005)

Tajikistan

265,000 (2005)

Turkmenistan

52,000 (2004)

Uzbekistan

720,000 (2005)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

1,800 (2002)

Antigua and Barbuda

54,000 (2004)

Aruba

98,400 (2004)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

186,000 (2004)

Barbados

206,200 (2005)

Belize

93,100 (2005)

British Virgin Islands

8,000 (2002)

Cayman Islands

17,000 (2002)

Costa Rica

1.101 million (2005)

Cuba

134,500 (2005)

Dominica

41,800 (2004)

Dominican Republic

3.623 million (2005)

El Salvador

2.412 million (2005)

Grenada

43,300 (2004)

Guadeloupe

314,700 (2004)

Guatemala

3,168,300 (2004)

Haiti

400,000 (2004)

Honduras

1.282 million (2005)

Jamaica

2.7 million (2005)

Martinique

319,900 (2002)

Montserrat

70 (1994)

Netherlands Antilles

200,000 (2004)

Nicaragua

1.119 million (2005)

Panama

1.352 million (2005)

Puerto Rico

2.682 million (2004)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

10,000 (2004)

Saint Lucia

93,000 (2004)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

70,600 (2005)

Trinidad and Tobago

800,000 (2005)

Turks and Caicos Islands

1,700 (1999)

Virgin Islands

64,200 (2004)

Europe

48 entries

Albania

1.259 million (2004)

Andorra

64,600 (2005)

Austria

8.16 million (2005)

Belarus

4.098 million (2005)

Belgium

9.46 million (2005)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.594 million (2005)

Bulgaria

6.245 million (2005)

Croatia

2.984 million (2005)

Czech Republic now Czechia

11.776 million (2005)

Denmark

5.469 million (2005)

Estonia

1.445 million (2005)

European Union

314,644,700 (2002)

Faroe Islands

42,500 (2005)

Finland

5.231 million (2005)

France

48.058 million (2005)

Germany

79.2 million (2005)

Gibraltar

9,797 (2002)

Greece

10.043 million (2005)

Guernsey

43,800 (2004)

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hungary

9.32 million (2005)

Ireland

4.21 million (2005)

Isle of Man

Italy

72.2 million (2005)

Jersey

83,900 (2004)

Latvia

1.872 million (2005)

Liechtenstein

11,400 (2002)

Lithuania

4.353 million (2005)

Luxembourg

720,000 (2005)

Malta

324,000 (2005)

Moldova

1.09 million (2005)

Monaco

19,300 (2002)

Montenegro

543,220 (2005)

Netherlands

15.834 million (2005)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

1.261 million (2005)

Norway

4.755 million (2005)

Poland

29,166,400 (2005)

Portugal

11.448 million (2005)

Romania

13.354 million (2005)

San Marino

16,800 (2002)

Serbia

5.229 million (2005)

Slovakia

4.54 million (2005)

Slovenia

1.759 million (2005)

Spain

41.328 million (2005)

Sweden

8.436 million (2005)

Switzerland

6.847 million (2005)

Ukraine

17.214 million (2005)

United Kingdom

61.091 million (2004)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

748,700 (2005)

Cyprus

Republic of Cyprus:: 718,800 (2005); north Cyprus: 143,178 (2002)

Gaza Strip

1.095 million (includes West Bank) (2005)

Iran

7.222 million (2005)

Iraq

574,000 (2004)

Israel

7.757 million (2005)

Jordan

1,594,500 (2004)

Kuwait

2.38 million (2005)

Lebanon

990,000 (2005)

Oman

1.333 million (2005)

Qatar

716,800 (2005)

Saudi Arabia

13.3 million (2005)

Syria

2.95 million (2005)

Turkey now Turkiye

43.609 million (2005)

United Arab Emirates

4.535 million (2005)

West Bank

1.095 million (includes Gaza Strip) (2005)

Yemen

2 million (2005)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

49,000 (2004)

Canada

16.6 million (2005)

Mexico

47.462 million (2005)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

United States

219.4 million (2005)

Oceania

24 entries

American Samoa

2,377 (1999)

Australia

18.42 million (2005)

Cook Islands

1,500 (2002)

Fiji

142,200 (2004)

French Polynesia

87,000 (2005)

Guam

98,000 (2004)

Kiribati

600 (2004)

Marshall Islands

1,198 (2004)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

14,100 (2005)

Nauru

1,500 (2002)

New Caledonia

134,300 (2005)

New Zealand

3.53 million (2005)

Niue

400 (2002)

Norfolk Island

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

Northern Mariana Islands

20,500 (2004)

Palau

1,000 (2002)

Papua New Guinea

26,000 (2005)

Samoa

24,000 (2005)

Solomon Islands

6,000 (2005)

Tokelau

0 (2001)

Tonga

16,400 (2004)

Tuvalu

0 (2004)

Vanuatu

12,700 (2005)

Wallis and Futuna

0 (1994)

South America

14 entries

Argentina

22.1 million (2005)

Bolivia

2.421 million (2005)

Brazil

86.21 million (2005)

Chile

10.57 million (2005)

Colombia

21.85 million (2005)

Ecuador

6.246 million (2005)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

0 (2001)

French Guiana

98,000 (2004)

Guyana

281,400 (2005)

Paraguay

1.887 million (2005)

Peru

5.583 million (2005)

Suriname

232,800 (2005)

Uruguay

600,000 (2004)

Venezuela

12.496 million (2005)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

205,900 (2004)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

183,400 (2005)

Cambodia

1.062 million (2005)

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

note - analog cellular service available

Hong Kong

8.693 million (2005)

Indonesia

46.91 million (2005)

Laos

520,546 (2006)

Macau

532,800 (2005)

Malaysia

19.545 million (2005)

Philippines

32.81 million (2005)

Singapore

4.385 million (2005)

Taiwan

22.17 million (2005)

Thailand

27.379 million (2005)

East Timor now Timor-Leste

Vietnam

9.593 million (2005)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2006, “Telephones - mobile cellular”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-mobile-cellular/2006.

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