Small states vs Uganda: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Small states
32.00 million
in 2025
Uganda
41.60 million
in 2024
Small states rank
44th
Uganda rank
41st

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Small states
  • Uganda
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How they compare

Uganda currently reports 41.60 million against 32.00 million in Small states, a difference of 9.60 million.

That makes Uganda's figure about 1.3 times Small states's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Uganda ahead.

Small states ranks 44th and Uganda ranks 41st 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.