Ethiopia vs Sub-Saharan Africa: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- Ethiopia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
How they compare
Sub-Saharan Africa currently reports 1.20 billion against 85.95 million in Ethiopia, a difference of 1.11 billion.
That makes Sub-Saharan Africa's figure about 13.9 times Ethiopia's.
Across all 52 years both countries report, Sub-Saharan Africa has been ahead every year.
Ethiopia ranks 23rd and Sub-Saharan Africa ranks 20th 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.