China vs IDA & IBRD total: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- China
- IDA & IBRD total
How they compare
IDA & IBRD total currently reports 7.55 billion against 1.87 billion in China, a difference of 5.68 billion.
That makes IDA & IBRD total's figure about 4.0 times China's.
Across all 53 years both countries report, IDA & IBRD total has been ahead every year.
China ranks 1st and IDA & IBRD total ranks 2nd of 212 countries.
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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.