Japan vs Late-demographic dividend: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Japan
221.92 million
in 2023
Late-demographic dividend
2.99 billion
in 2022
Japan rank
6th
Late-demographic dividend rank
9th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Japan
  • Late-demographic dividend
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How they compare

Late-demographic dividend currently reports 2.99 billion against 221.92 million in Japan, a difference of 2.77 billion.

That makes Late-demographic dividend's figure about 13.5 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Late-demographic dividend ahead.

Japan ranks 6th and Late-demographic dividend ranks 9th 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.