Arab World vs Malaysia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Arab World
430.81 million
in 2022
Malaysia
49.66 million
in 2024
Arab World rank
40th
Malaysia rank
38th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Arab World
  • Malaysia
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How they compare

Arab World currently reports 430.81 million against 49.66 million in Malaysia, a difference of 381.15 million.

That makes Arab World's figure about 8.7 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Malaysia ahead.

Arab World ranks 40th and Malaysia ranks 38th 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.