Botswana vs World: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Botswana
- World
How they compare
Botswana currently reports 164 per 100 people against 111.5 per 100 people in World, a difference of 52.5 per 100 people.
That makes Botswana's figure about 1.5 times World's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 48 shared years of data; in 1960 it was World ahead.
Botswana ranks 20th and World ranks 22nd of 212 countries.
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About this data
Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.