Egypt vs IDA total: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Egypt
113.19 million
in 2024
IDA total
1.73 billion
in 2025
Egypt rank
17th
IDA total rank
14th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Egypt
  • IDA total
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How they compare

IDA total currently reports 1.73 billion against 113.19 million in Egypt, a difference of 1.62 billion.

That makes IDA total's figure about 15.3 times Egypt's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was IDA total ahead.

Egypt ranks 17th and IDA total ranks 14th of 212 countries.

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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.