Mobile subscriptions in El Salvador

El Salvador had 177 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2024.

Measure: Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people Unit: Subscriptions per 100 people Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
El Salvador, 2024 177 Subscriptions per 100 people
Change from 2023 −3per 100 people 2023: 180 per 100 people
World, 2024 110 per 100 people Official aggregate

Mobile subscriptions in El Salvador over time

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Subscriptions per 100 people. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people (subscriptions per 100 people), 2001 to 2025
Period El SalvadorWorld
2025 – 112 per 100 people
2024 177 per 100 people 110 per 100 people
2023 180 per 100 people 110 per 100 people
2022 183 per 100 people 108 per 100 people
2021 177 per 100 people 107 per 100 people
2020 160 per 100 people 105 per 100 people
2019 167 per 100 people 106 per 100 people
2018 152 per 100 people 103 per 100 people
2017 153 per 100 people 101 per 100 people
2016 155 per 100 people 99 per 100 people
2015 151 per 100 people 96 per 100 people
2014 149 per 100 people 97 per 100 people
2013 146 per 100 people 93 per 100 people
2012 141 per 100 people 89 per 100 people
2011 137 per 100 people 84 per 100 people
2010 127 per 100 people 77 per 100 people
2009 125 per 100 people 68 per 100 people
2008 115 per 100 people 60 per 100 people
2007 102 per 100 people 51 per 100 people
2006 64 per 100 people 42 per 100 people
2005 40 per 100 people 34 per 100 people
2004 31 per 100 people –
2003 19 per 100 people –
2002 15 per 100 people –
2001 14 per 100 people –

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −3 from 180 per 100 people in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 149 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +27.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 110 per 100 people.

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Source and dates

Original producer
International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IT.CEL.SETS.P2 · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for El Salvador
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database