Statizoid

Mobile and fixed-line telephone subscribers by country

International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

Countries reporting
53
Highest
95.89 million
Nigeria
Lowest
122,998
Sao Tome and Principe
Median
4.52 million
Years covered
52
1960–2011
Data points
2,189

What the numbers show

Mobile and fixed-line telephone subscribers is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 95.89 million in Nigeria; the lowest is 122,998 in Sao Tome and Principe.

The median across all reporting countries is 4.52 million, and the mean is 12.72 million.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 780.

Mobile and fixed-line telephone subscribers: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nigeria 95.89 million 2011 up 10,962.4% volatile
2 Egypt 92.14 million 2011 up 871.0% volatile
3 South Africa 68.13 million 2011 up 333.6% volatile
4 Morocco 40.12 million 2011 up 572.8% volatile
5 Algeria 38.68 million 2011 up 1,853.3% volatile
6 Kenya 28.36 million 2011 up 3,019.1% volatile
7 Tanzania 25.83 million 2011 up 5,596.9% volatile
8 Sudan 25.54 million 2011 up 4,528.1% volatile
9 Ghana 21.45 million 2011 up 4,291.8% volatile
10 Cote d'Ivoire 17.61 million 2011 up 1,623.1% volatile
11 Uganda 17.16 million 2011 up 4,952.5% volatile
12 Democratic Republic of Congo 15.70 million 2011 up 9,714.9% volatile
13 Ethiopia 14.96 million 2011 up 4,706.1% volatile
14 Tunisia 13.61 million 2011 up 841.3% volatile
15 Cameroon 11.16 million 2011 up 2,030.6% volatile
16 Libya 11.00 million 2011 up 1,449.3% volatile
17 Mali 10.93 million 2011 up 14,455.6% volatile
18 Angola 9.79 million 2011 up 6,352.1% volatile
19 Senegal 9.70 million 2011 up 1,699.6% volatile
20 Zimbabwe 9.56 million 2011 up 1,583.2% volatile
21 Madagascar 8.80 million 2011 up 4,175.6% volatile
22 Zambia 8.25 million 2011 up 3,888.3% volatile
23 Mozambique 7.94 million 2011 up 3,210.6% volatile
24 Benin 7.92 million 2011 up 4,196.3% volatile
25 Burkina Faso 7.82 million 2011 up 5,728.9% volatile
26 Niger 4.83 million 2011 up 20,193.2% volatile
27 Guinea 4.52 million 2011 up 5,466.8% volatile
28 Rwanda 4.49 million 2011 up 5,085.1% volatile
29 Malawi 4.13 million 2011 up 3,638.6% volatile
30 Congo 3.90 million 2011 up 2,166.8% volatile
31 Chad 3.70 million 2011 up 11,209.2% volatile
32 Mauritania 3.39 million 2011 up 2,403.0% volatile
33 Togo 3.34 million 2011 up 2,232.8% volatile
34 Botswana 3.05 million 2011 up 534.8% volatile
35 Namibia 2.40 million 2011 up 971.1% volatile
36 Liberia 2.03 million 2011 up 23,003.1% volatile
37 Sierra Leone 2.01 million 2010 up 6,413.6% volatile
38 Burundi 1.94 million 2011 up 3,503.8% volatile
39 Central African Republic 1.83 million 2011 up 9,084.6% volatile
40 Gabon 1.82 million 2011 up 873.4% volatile
41 Mauritius 1.67 million 2011 up 188.1% volatile
42 Gambia 1.45 million 2011 up 1,510.9% volatile
43 Lesotho 1.27 million 2011 up 1,521.5% volatile
44 Eswatini 842,365 2011 up 849.3% volatile
45 Somalia 748,200 2010 up 612.6% volatile
46 Guinea-Bissau 720,000 2010 up 6,373.1% volatile
47 Cape Verde 470,932 2011 up 392.4% volatile
48 Equatorial Guinea 412,827 2010 up 3,619.2% volatile
49 Eritrea 300,412 2011 up 861.3% volatile
50 Comoros 240,038 2011 up 2,604.3% volatile
51 Djibouti 211,491 2011 up 1,535.4% volatile
52 Seychelles 154,506 2011 up 166.7% volatile
53 Sao Tome and Principe 122,998 2011 up 2,160.6% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Mobile and fixed-line telephone subscribers
Source
International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
59 places, 2,189 data points, 1960–2011
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International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.