Mobile Subscriptions per 100 People by Country
Key Findings
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Mobile Subscriptions per 100 People by CountryRussia leads at 180.8 subscriptions per 100 people in 2023, from just 2.2 in 2000 - the largest increase in the group at 178.6. Japan is close behind on 178.4 and South Africa on 171.5. Nigeria illustrates how fast the rollout was where it started from nothing: 0.0 in 2000 to 98.5 in 2023. Four countries here have fewer subscriptions per 100 people in 2023 than at their peak in this series: Brazil, down from 127.8 in 2015 to 101.0; Indonesia, from 129.5 to 125.2; Germany, from 128.4 to 124.7; and India, from 82.3 in 2020 to 80.6. India is the lowest of the twelve on this per-person measure.
Data Insights
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank Open Data
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2000–2023 (6 years) · 72 observations
- Measure
- Mobile Subscriptions per 100 People
- Last updated
- 22 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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