Iraq vs North America: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Iraq
46.08 million
in 2024
North America
434.00 million
in 2025
Iraq rank
39th
North America rank
39th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Iraq
  • North America
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How they compare

North America currently reports 434.00 million against 46.08 million in Iraq, a difference of 387.92 million.

That makes North America's figure about 9.4 times Iraq's.

Across all 50 years both countries report, North America has been ahead every year.

Iraq ranks 39th and North America ranks 39th 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.