Mobile subscriptions in OECD members
OECD member countries had 122 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2022. The value for 2022 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
OECD members is a group: OECD member countries as grouped by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
OECD members, 2022
122
Change from 2021
+3per 100 people
World, 2022
108 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in OECD members 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 | OECD members | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 112 per 100 people |
| 2024 | – | 110 per 100 people |
| 2023 | – | 110 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 122 per 100 people | 108 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 120 per 100 people | 107 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 117 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 117 per 100 people | 106 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 116 per 100 people | 103 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 114 per 100 people | 101 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 113 per 100 people | 99 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 112 per 100 people | 96 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 111 per 100 people | 97 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 110 per 100 people | 93 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 108 per 100 people | 89 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 105 per 100 people | 84 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 102 per 100 people | 77 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 100 per 100 people | 68 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 99 per 100 people | 60 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 94 per 100 people | 51 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 86 per 100 people | 42 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 78 per 100 people | 34 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 70 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 63 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 57 per 100 people | – |
| 2001 | 52 per 100 people | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +3 from 120 per 100 people in 2021.
- Since 2012, when it was 108 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +14.
- The figure for the world in 2022 was 108 per 100 people.