Iran vs Lower middle income: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Iran
159.39 million
in 2024
Lower middle income
2.84 billion
in 2025
Iran rank
11th
Lower middle income rank
10th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Iran
  • Lower middle income
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How they compare

Lower middle income currently reports 2.84 billion against 159.39 million in Iran, a difference of 2.68 billion.

That makes Lower middle income's figure about 17.8 times Iran's.

Across all 38 years both countries report, Lower middle income has been ahead every year.

Iran ranks 11th and Lower middle income ranks 10th 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.