Somalia vs Yemen: Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) over time
- Somalia
- Yemen
How they compare
Somalia currently reports 53.96 per 100 people against 50.89 per 100 people in Yemen, a difference of 3.07 per 100 people.
That makes Somalia's figure about 1.1 times Yemen's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Yemen ahead.
Somalia ranks 198th and Yemen ranks 200th of 214 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Somalia averaged higher in 1 and Yemen in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Somalia | Yemen | 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 per 100 people | 0 per 100 people | — |
| 1990s | 0 per 100 people | 0.0518 per 100 people | 0.0518 per 100 people | Yemen |
| 2000s | 3.55 per 100 people | 11.13 per 100 people | 7.58 per 100 people | Yemen |
| 2010s | 35.7 per 100 people | 48.07 per 100 people | 12.37 per 100 people | Yemen |
| 2020s | 51.99 per 100 people | 46.79 per 100 people | 5.2 per 100 people | Somalia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher mobile cellular subscriptions, Somalia or Yemen?
- Somalia, at 53.96 per 100 people against 50.89 per 100 people in Yemen as of 2023.
- What is the difference in mobile cellular subscriptions between Somalia and Yemen?
- 3.07 per 100 people, with Somalia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Somalia and Yemen?
- 52 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2023.
- How do Somalia and Yemen rank globally for mobile cellular subscriptions?
- Somalia ranks 198th and Yemen ranks 200th 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
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.