Germany vs South Asia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Germany
109.20 million
in 2024
South Asia
1.38 billion
in 2025
Germany rank
18th
South Asia rank
17th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Germany
  • South Asia
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How they compare

South Asia currently reports 1.38 billion against 109.20 million in Germany, a difference of 1.27 billion.

That makes South Asia's figure about 12.7 times Germany's.

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

Germany ranks 18th and South Asia ranks 17th 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.