Africa Eastern and Southern vs Spain: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Africa Eastern and Southern
734.00 million
in 2025
Spain
62.41 million
in 2024
Africa Eastern and Southern rank
31st
Spain rank
30th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Africa Eastern and Southern
  • Spain
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How they compare

Africa Eastern and Southern currently reports 734.00 million against 62.41 million in Spain, a difference of 671.59 million.

That makes Africa Eastern and Southern's figure about 11.8 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 50 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Spain ahead.

Africa Eastern and Southern ranks 31st and Spain ranks 30th of 48 groups.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 13,039 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.