Mexico vs OECD members: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Mexico
152.44 million
in 2024
OECD members
1.69 billion
in 2022
Mexico rank
12th
OECD members rank
15th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Mexico
  • OECD members
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How they compare

OECD members currently reports 1.69 billion against 152.44 million in Mexico, a difference of 1.53 billion.

That makes OECD members's figure about 11.1 times Mexico's.

Across all 51 years both countries report, OECD members has been ahead every year.

Mexico ranks 12th and OECD members ranks 15th 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.