IDA total vs Iran: Mobile cellular subscriptions

IDA total
1.73 billion
in 2025
Iran
159.39 million
in 2024
IDA total rank
14th
Iran rank
11th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • IDA total
  • Iran
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How they compare

IDA total currently reports 1.73 billion against 159.39 million in Iran, a difference of 1.57 billion.

That makes IDA total's figure about 10.9 times Iran's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Iran ahead.

IDA total ranks 14th and Iran ranks 11th 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.