Mobile subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa had 90 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Sub-Saharan Africa, 2025
90
Change from 2024
+1per 100 people
World, 2025
112 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa 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 | Sub-Saharan Africa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 per 100 people | 112 per 100 people |
| 2024 | 89 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2023 | 90 per 100 people | 110 per 100 people |
| 2022 | 88 per 100 people | 108 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 83 per 100 people | 107 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 81 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 77 per 100 people | 106 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 74 per 100 people | 103 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 71 per 100 people | 101 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 72 per 100 people | 99 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 73 per 100 people | 96 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 69 per 100 people | 97 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 65 per 100 people | 93 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 59 per 100 people | 89 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 52 per 100 people | 84 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 44 per 100 people | 77 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 37 per 100 people | 68 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 32 per 100 people | 60 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 23 per 100 people | 51 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 18 per 100 people | 42 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 12 per 100 people | 34 per 100 people |
| 2004 | 7 per 100 people | – |
| 2003 | 5 per 100 people | – |
| 2002 | 4 per 100 people | – |
| 2001 | 2 per 100 people | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +1 from 89 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 73 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +17.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 112 per 100 people.