Maldives vs Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income): Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Maldives
- Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
How they compare
Maldives currently reports 148.14 per 100 people against 92.7 per 100 people in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income), a difference of 55.44 per 100 people.
That makes Maldives's figure about 1.6 times Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ahead.
Maldives ranks 31st and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 31st of 213 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Maldives averaged higher in 3 and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Maldives | Sub-Saharan Africa (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 | 0.0001 per 100 people | 0.0001 per 100 people | Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) |
| 1990s | 0.2126 per 100 people | 0.2321 per 100 people | 0.0195 per 100 people | Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) |
| 2000s | 59.41 per 100 people | 14.19 per 100 people | 45.22 per 100 people | Maldives |
| 2010s | 164.46 per 100 people | 66.77 per 100 people | 97.69 per 100 people | Maldives |
| 2020s | 141.18 per 100 people | 89.68 per 100 people | 51.5 per 100 people | Maldives |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher mobile cellular subscriptions, Maldives or Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
- Maldives, at 148.14 per 100 people against 92.7 per 100 people in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) as of 2024.
- What is the difference in mobile cellular subscriptions between Maldives and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
- 55.44 per 100 people, with Maldives ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Maldives and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
- 53 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
- How do Maldives and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank globally for mobile cellular subscriptions?
- Maldives ranks 31st and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 31st of 213 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
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.