IDA only vs South Korea: Mobile cellular subscriptions

IDA only
1.15 billion
in 2025
South Korea
89.22 million
in 2024
IDA only rank
22nd
South Korea rank
21st

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • IDA only
  • South Korea
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How they compare

IDA only currently reports 1.15 billion against 89.22 million in South Korea, a difference of 1.06 billion.

That makes IDA only's figure about 12.9 times South Korea's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was South Korea ahead.

IDA only ranks 22nd and South Korea ranks 21st of 48 groups.

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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.