The CIA World Factbook Edition 2022 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 2022 edition carries it in 226 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2022 edition
- 226
- the first edition with it
- 2000
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Telephones - mobile cellular” (2000 to 2025).
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World
1 entryWorld
- total subscriptions:
- 7.8 billion (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 106 (2020 est.)
Africa
55 entriesAlgeria
- total subscriptions:
- 45,555,673 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 104 (2020 est.)
Botswana
- total subscriptions:
- 3,829,408 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 163 (2020 est.)
Burkina Faso
- total subscriptions:
- 22,117,218 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 106 (2020 est.)
Cabo Verde
- total subscriptions:
- 544,729 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 98 (2020 est.)
Cameroon
- total subscriptions:
- 22,350,310 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 84 (2020 est.)
Central African Republic
- total subscriptions:
- 1.831 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 38 (2020 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total subscriptions:
- 40,798,396 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 46 (2020 est.)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total subscriptions:
- 4.89 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 89 (2020 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire
- total subscriptions:
- 40,095,246 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 152 (2020 est.)
Equatorial Guinea
- total subscriptions:
- 645,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 46 (2020 est.)
Eritrea
- total subscriptions:
- 1.801 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 51 (2020 est.)
Eswatini
- total subscriptions:
- 1.243 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 107 (2020 est.)
Ethiopia
- total subscriptions:
- 44.5 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 39 (2020 est.)
Gambia, The now The Gambia
- total subscriptions:
- 2,677,954 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 111 (2020 est.)
Guinea
- total subscriptions:
- 13.795 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 105 (2020 est.)
Guinea-Bissau
- total subscriptions:
- 1,913,858 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 97 (2020 est.)
Liberia
- total subscriptions:
- 1.653 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 33 (2020 est.)
Libya
- total subscriptions:
- 2.922 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 43 (2020 est.)
Madagascar
- total subscriptions:
- 15.869 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 57 (2020 est.)
Mauritania
- total subscriptions:
- 4,932,571 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 106 (2020 est.)
Mauritius
- total subscriptions:
- 1,912,900 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 150 (2020 est.)
Morocco
- total subscriptions:
- 49,421,023 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 134 (2020 est.)
Mozambique
- total subscriptions:
- 15,463,226 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 49 (2020 est.)
Namibia
- total subscriptions:
- 2,898,125 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 114 (2020 est.)
Niger
- total subscriptions:
- 14.239 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 59 (2020 est.)
Nigeria
- total subscriptions:
- 204,228,678 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 99 (2020 est.)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total subscriptions:
- 4,000 (2018 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 67 (2019 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe
- total subscriptions:
- 174,203 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 79 (2020 est.)
Senegal
- total subscriptions:
- 19,078,948 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 114 (2020 est.)
Sierra Leone
- total subscriptions:
- 6,884,201 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 86 (2020 est.)
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
22 entriesAfghanistan
- total subscriptions:
- 22,678,024 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 58 (2020 est.)
Armenia
- total subscriptions:
- 3,488,797 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 118 (2020 est.)
Azerbaijan
- total subscriptions:
- 10,344,300 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 102 (2020 est.)
Bangladesh
- total subscriptions:
- 176,279,465 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 107 (2020 est.)
China
- total subscriptions:
- 1.72 billion (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 119 (2020 est.)
Georgia
- total subscriptions:
- 5,100,101 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 128 (2020 est.)
India
- total subscriptions:
- 1.15 billion (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 84 (2020 est.)
Japan
- total subscriptions:
- 195,054,893 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 154 (2020 est.)
Kazakhstan
- total subscriptions:
- 24,293,900 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 129 (2020 est.)
Korea, North now North Korea
- total subscriptions:
- 6 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 23 (2020 est.)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total subscriptions:
- 70,513,676 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 138 (2020 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
- total subscriptions:
- 8.511 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 130 (2020 est.)
Mongolia
- total subscriptions:
- 4,363,919 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 133 (2020 est.)
Nepal
- total subscriptions:
- 38.213 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 131 (2020 est.)
Pakistan
- total subscriptions:
- 175,624,364 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 80 (2020 est.)
Russia
- total subscriptions:
- 238,733,217 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 164 (2020 est.)
Tajikistan
- total subscriptions:
- 9.904 million (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 111.53 (2019)
Turkmenistan
- total subscriptions:
- 9.377 million (2018)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 162.86 (2019)
Central America and the Caribbean
30 entriesAntigua and Barbuda
- total subscriptions:
- 184,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 188 (2020 est.)
Bahamas, The now The Bahamas
- total subscriptions:
- 466,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 119 (2020 est.)
British Virgin Islands
- total subscriptions:
- 35,163 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 116 (2020 est.)
Cayman Islands
- total subscriptions:
- 100,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 152 (2020 est.)
Costa Rica
- total subscriptions:
- 7,512,370 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 147 (2020 est.)
Dominican Republic
- total subscriptions:
- 8,989,587 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 83 (2020 est.)
El Salvador
- total subscriptions:
- 9.949 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 153 (2020 est.)
Guatemala
- total subscriptions:
- 20,390,671 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 114 (2020 est.)
Haiti
- total subscriptions:
- 7.319 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 64 (2020 est.)
Honduras
- total subscriptions:
- 6,960,654 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 70 (2020 est.)
Nicaragua
- total subscriptions:
- 5,976,479 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 90 (2020 est.)
Puerto Rico
- total subscriptions:
- 3,483,570 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 122 (2020 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- total subscriptions:
- 78,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 147 (2020 est.)
Saint Lucia
- total subscriptions:
- 203,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 111 (2020 est.)
Saint Martin
- total subscriptions:
- 68,840 (2017 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 196 (2019 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- total subscriptions:
- 97,059 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 87 (2020 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago
- total subscriptions:
- 2,163,730 (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 155.11 (2019)
Europe
47 entriesAustria
- total subscriptions:
- 10,717,445 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 119 (2020 est.)
Belarus
- total subscriptions:
- 11,704,084 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 124 (2020 est.)
Belgium
- total subscriptions:
- 11,529,728 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 99 (2020 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total subscriptions:
- 3,509,674 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 107 (2020 est.)
Bulgaria
- total subscriptions:
- 7,945,739 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 114 (2020 est.)
Croatia
- total subscriptions:
- 4,375,699 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 107 (2020 est.)
Czechia
- total subscriptions:
- 12,999,812 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 121 (2020 est.)
Denmark
- total subscriptions:
- 7,252,675 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 125 (2020 est.)
Estonia
- total subscriptions:
- 1,925,789 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 145 (2020 est.)
European Union
- total subscriptions:
- 540,557,924 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 121 (2020 est.)
Faroe Islands
- total subscriptions:
- 59,213 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 121 (2020 est.)
Finland
- total subscriptions:
- 7.12 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 129 (2020 est.)
France
- total subscriptions:
- 72.751 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 111 (2020 est.)
Germany
- total subscriptions:
- 107.4 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 128 (2020 est.)
Greece
- total subscriptions:
- 11,412,995 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 109 (2020 est.)
Hungary
- total subscriptions:
- 10,332,660 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 107 (2020 est.)
Ireland
- total subscriptions:
- 5,234,027 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 106 (2020 est.)
Liechtenstein
- total subscriptions:
- 48,887 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 128 (2020 est.)
Lithuania
- total subscriptions:
- 3,671,995 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 135 (2020 est.)
Luxembourg
- total subscriptions:
- 890,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 142 (2020 est.)
Montenegro
- total subscriptions:
- 1,080,089 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 172 (2020 est.)
Netherlands
- total subscriptions:
- 21.415 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 125 (2020 est.)
North Macedonia
- total subscriptions:
- 1,862,138 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 89 (2020 est.)
Poland
- total subscriptions:
- 49,350,724 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 130 (2020 est.)
Portugal
- total subscriptions:
- 11,854,999 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 116 (2020 est.)
Romania
- total subscriptions:
- 22.592 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 117 (2020 est.)
San Marino
- total subscriptions:
- 39,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 115 (2020 est.)
Switzerland
- total subscriptions:
- 10.829 million (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 126.05 (2019)
United Kingdom
- total subscriptions:
- 80.967 million (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 119.9 (2019)
Middle East
17 entriesBahrain
- total subscriptions:
- 1,748,672 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 103 (2020 est.)
Gaza Strip
- total subscriptions:
- 4,274,119 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
84 (2020 est.)
includes the West Bank
Israel
- total subscriptions:
- 12.27 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 142 (2020 est.)
Saudi Arabia
- total subscriptions:
- 43,215,439 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 124 (2020 est.)
Turkey (Turkiye) now Turkiye
- total subscriptions:
- 80,790,900 (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 96.84 (2019)
United Arab Emirates
- total subscriptions:
- 19,602,800 (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 200.63 (2019)
West Bank
- total subscriptions:
- 4,274,119 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 84 (2020 est.)
note: includes Gaza Strip
North America
4 entriesCanada
- total subscriptions:
- 32.36 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 86 (2020 est.)
Mexico
- total subscriptions:
- 122,898,392 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 95 (2020 est.)
United States
- total subscriptions:
- 442.457 million (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 134.46 (2019)
Oceania
21 entriesAmerican Samoa
- total subscriptions:
- 2,250 (2009 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 4 (2009 est.)
Australia
- total subscriptions:
- 27.453 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 108 (2020 est.)
Cook Islands
- total subscriptions:
- 14,539 (2018 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 83 (2018 est.)
French Polynesia
- total subscriptions:
- 335,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 119 (2020 est.)
Marshall Islands
- total subscriptions:
- 16,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 27 (2020 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- total subscriptions:
- 22,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 19 (2020 est.)
New Caledonia
- total subscriptions:
- 260,000 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 91 (2020 est.)
New Zealand
- total subscriptions:
- 6.148 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 127 (2020 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands
- total subscriptions:
- 20,474 (2004 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 36 (2004)
Papua New Guinea
- total subscriptions:
- 4.818 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 54 (2020 est.)
South America
13 entriesArgentina
- total subscriptions:
- 54,763,900 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 121 (2020 est.)
Bolivia
- total subscriptions:
- 11,804,343 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 101 (2020 est.)
Brazil
- total subscriptions:
- 205,834,781 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 97 (2020 est.)
Colombia
- total subscriptions:
- 67,672,570 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 133 (2020 est.)
Ecuador
- total subscriptions:
- 15,485,366 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 88 (2020 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- total subscriptions:
- 5,000 (2018 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 163 (2018 est.)
Paraguay
- total subscriptions:
- 7,865,050 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 110 (2020 est.)
Southeast Asia
14 entriesBurma now Burma (Myanmar)
- total subscriptions:
- 78,548,329 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 144 (2020 est.)
Cambodia
- total subscriptions:
- 21,086,791 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 126 (2020 est.)
Hong Kong
- total subscriptions:
- 21,865,215 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 292 (2020 est.)
Indonesia
- total subscriptions:
- 355,620,388 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 130 (2020 est.)
Macau
- total subscriptions:
- 2.793 million (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 430 (2020 est.)
Malaysia
- total subscriptions:
- 43,723,600 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 135 (2020 est.)
Philippines
- total subscriptions:
- 149,579,406 (2020 est.)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 137 (2020 est.)
Thailand
- total subscriptions:
- 129.614 million (2019)
- subscriptions per 100 inhabitants:
- 186.16 (2019)
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2022, “Telephones - mobile cellular”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/telephones-mobile-cellular/2022.