United States vs World: Mobile cellular subscriptions
Mobile cellular subscriptions over time
- United States
- World
How they compare
World currently reports 9.17 billion against 390.99 million in United States, a difference of 8.78 billion.
That makes World's figure about 23.5 times United States's.
Across all 45 years both countries report, World has been ahead every year.
United States ranks 3rd and World ranks 1st of 212 countries.
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About this data
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.