El Salvador vs Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income): Mobile cellular subscriptions

El Salvador
176.52 per 100 people
in 2024
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
117.3 per 100 people
in 2025
El Salvador rank
13th
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) rank
18th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • El Salvador
  • Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
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How they compare

El Salvador currently reports 176.52 per 100 people against 117.3 per 100 people in Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income), a difference of 59.22 per 100 people.

That makes El Salvador's figure about 1.5 times Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) ahead.

El Salvador ranks 13th and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) ranks 18th of 214 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, El Salvador averaged higher in 4 and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade El Salvador Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1960s 0 per 100 people 0 per 100 people 0 per 100 people
1970s 0 per 100 people 0 per 100 people 0 per 100 people
1980s 0 per 100 people 0.0016 per 100 people 0.0016 per 100 people Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
1990s 1.24 per 100 people 0.8007 per 100 people 0.4393 per 100 people El Salvador
2000s 53.82 per 100 people 44.83 per 100 people 9 per 100 people El Salvador
2010s 147.82 per 100 people 107.48 per 100 people 40.34 per 100 people El Salvador
2020s 175.2 per 100 people 110.96 per 100 people 64.24 per 100 people El Salvador

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mobile cellular subscriptions, El Salvador or Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
El Salvador, at 176.52 per 100 people against 117.3 per 100 people in Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) as of 2024.
What is the difference in mobile cellular subscriptions between El Salvador and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
59.22 per 100 people, with El Salvador ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
53 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
How do El Salvador and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) rank globally for mobile cellular subscriptions?
El Salvador ranks 13th and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) ranks 18th of 214 countries.
Where does this data come from?
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), published as Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Unit
per 100 people
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
261 places, 13,022 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

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.