Mobile subscriptions in Malawi
Malawi had 69 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Malawi, 2024
69
Change from 2023
+8per 100 people
World, 2024
110 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in Malawi 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 | Malawi | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 112 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 69 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 61 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 60 per 100 people | 108 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 60 per 100 people | 107 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 51 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 47 per 100 people | 106 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 38 per 100 people | 103 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 43 per 100 people | 101 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 41 per 100 people | 99 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 38 per 100 people | 96 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 34 per 100 people | 97 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 33 per 100 people | 93 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 30 per 100 people | 89 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 26 per 100 people | 84 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 21 per 100 people | 77 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 17 per 100 people | 68 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 11 per 100 people | 60 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 8 per 100 people | 51 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 5 per 100 people | 42 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 3 per 100 people | 34 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 2 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 1 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 1 per 100 people | – |
| 2001 | 0 per 100 people | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +8 from 61 per 100 people in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 34 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +35.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 110 per 100 people.