Lower middle income vs Uruguay: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Lower middle income
89.9 per 100 people
in 2025
Uruguay
145.5 per 100 people
in 2024
Lower middle income rank
36th
Uruguay rank
33rd

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Lower middle income
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 145.5 per 100 people against 89.9 per 100 people in Lower middle income, a difference of 55.6 per 100 people.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.6 times Lower middle income's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 38 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Uruguay ahead.

Lower middle income ranks 36th and Uruguay ranks 33rd of 48 groups.

Across the 6 decades both report, Lower middle income averaged higher in 1 and Uruguay in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Lower middle income Uruguay 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 0.0001 per 100 people 0 per 100 people 0.0001 per 100 people Lower middle income
1990s 0.105 per 100 people 2.15 per 100 people 2.05 per 100 people Uruguay
2010s 87.92 per 100 people 143.96 per 100 people 56.04 per 100 people Uruguay
2020s 92.6 per 100 people 139.81 per 100 people 47.21 per 100 people Uruguay

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mobile cellular subscriptions, Lower middle income or Uruguay?
Uruguay, at 145.5 per 100 people against 89.9 per 100 people in Lower middle income as of 2024.
What is the difference in mobile cellular subscriptions between Lower middle income and Uruguay?
55.6 per 100 people, with Uruguay ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Lower middle income and Uruguay?
38 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
How do Lower middle income and Uruguay rank globally for mobile cellular subscriptions?
Lower middle income ranks 36th and Uruguay ranks 33rd of 48 groups.
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
260 places, 13,015 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.