Mobile subscriptions in Botswana
Botswana had 164 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2024.
Botswana, 2024
164
Change from 2023
−15per 100 people
World, 2024
110 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in Botswana over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Subscriptions per 100 people. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Botswana | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 112 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 164 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 179 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 178 per 100 people | 108 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 173 per 100 people | 107 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 162 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 161 per 100 people | 106 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 147 per 100 people | 103 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 143 per 100 people | 101 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 147 per 100 people | 99 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 158 per 100 people | 96 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 157 per 100 people | 97 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 152 per 100 people | 93 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 146 per 100 people | 89 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 140 per 100 people | 84 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 116 per 100 people | 77 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 94 per 100 people | 68 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 76 per 100 people | 60 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 60 per 100 people | 51 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 44 per 100 people | 42 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 31 per 100 people | 34 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 29 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 25 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 19 per 100 people | – |
| 2001 | 19 per 100 people | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −15 from 179 per 100 people in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 157 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +7.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 110 per 100 people.