Mobile subscriptions in East Asia and Pacific
East Asia and Pacific had 135 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
East Asia and Pacific is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
East Asia and Pacific, 2025
135
Change from 2024
+2per 100 people
World, 2025
112 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in East Asia and Pacific 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 | East Asia and Pacific | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 per 100 people | 112 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 133 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 131 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 129 per 100 people | 108 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 128 per 100 people | 107 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 126 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 128 per 100 people | 106 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 121 per 100 people | 103 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 116 per 100 people | 101 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 110 per 100 people | 99 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 104 per 100 people | 96 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 103 per 100 people | 97 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 98 per 100 people | 93 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 92 per 100 people | 89 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 84 per 100 people | 84 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 74 per 100 people | 77 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 65 per 100 people | 68 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 57 per 100 people | 60 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 48 per 100 people | 51 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 40 per 100 people | 42 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 34 per 100 people | 34 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 30 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 25 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 20 per 100 people | – |
| 2001 | 16 per 100 people | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +2 from 133 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 104 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +31.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 112 per 100 people.