Ethiopia vs IDA only: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Ethiopia
85.95 million
in 2024
IDA only
1.15 billion
in 2025
Ethiopia rank
23rd
IDA only rank
22nd

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Ethiopia
  • IDA only
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How they compare

IDA only currently reports 1.15 billion against 85.95 million in Ethiopia, a difference of 1.06 billion.

That makes IDA only's figure about 13.4 times Ethiopia's.

Across all 52 years both countries report, IDA only has been ahead every year.

Ethiopia ranks 23rd and IDA only ranks 22nd 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.