United States vs Upper middle income: Mobile cellular subscriptions

United States
390.99 million
in 2024
Upper middle income
3.76 billion
in 2025
United States rank
3rd
Upper middle income rank
6th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • United States
  • Upper middle income
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How they compare

Upper middle income currently reports 3.76 billion against 390.99 million in United States, a difference of 3.37 billion.

That makes Upper middle income's figure about 9.6 times United States's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Upper middle income ahead.

United States ranks 3rd and Upper middle income ranks 6th 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.