Mobile subscriptions in Latin America and Caribbean
Latin America and Caribbean had 117 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Latin America and Caribbean is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Latin America and Caribbean, 2025
117
Change from 2024
+2per 100 people
World, 2025
112 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in Latin America and Caribbean 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 | Latin America and Caribbean | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 per 100 people | 112 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 115 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 113 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 110 per 100 people | 108 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 109 per 100 people | 107 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 103 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 103 per 100 people | 106 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 106 per 100 people | 103 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 107 per 100 people | 101 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 111 per 100 people | 99 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 112 per 100 people | 96 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 116 per 100 people | 97 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 116 per 100 people | 93 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 111 per 100 people | 89 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 106 per 100 people | 84 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 97 per 100 people | 77 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 88 per 100 people | 68 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 80 per 100 people | 60 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 67 per 100 people | 51 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 54 per 100 people | 42 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 43 per 100 people | 34 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 32 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 23 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 19 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 115 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 112 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +5.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 112 per 100 people.