Mobile subscriptions in World
The world had 112 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
World, 2025
112
Change from 2024
+1per 100 people
European Union, 2022
124 per 100 people
Mobile subscriptions in World 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 | World | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 per 100 people | – |
| 2024 | 110 per 100 people | – |
| 2023 | 110 per 100 people | – |
| 2022 | 108 per 100 people | 124 per 100 people |
| 2021 | 107 per 100 people | 123 per 100 people |
| 2020 | 105 per 100 people | 121 per 100 people |
| 2019 | 106 per 100 people | 122 per 100 people |
| 2018 | 103 per 100 people | 122 per 100 people |
| 2017 | 101 per 100 people | 123 per 100 people |
| 2016 | 99 per 100 people | 122 per 100 people |
| 2015 | 96 per 100 people | 122 per 100 people |
| 2014 | 97 per 100 people | 124 per 100 people |
| 2013 | 93 per 100 people | 125 per 100 people |
| 2012 | 89 per 100 people | 124 per 100 people |
| 2011 | 84 per 100 people | 122 per 100 people |
| 2010 | 77 per 100 people | 118 per 100 people |
| 2009 | 68 per 100 people | 121 per 100 people |
| 2008 | 60 per 100 people | 121 per 100 people |
| 2007 | 51 per 100 people | 115 per 100 people |
| 2006 | 42 per 100 people | 105 per 100 people |
| 2005 | 34 per 100 people | 95 per 100 people |
| 2004 | – | 85 per 100 people |
| 2003 | – | 77 per 100 people |
| 2002 | – | 70 per 100 people |
| 2001 | – | 63 per 100 people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +1 from 110 per 100 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 96 per 100 people, the figure has changed by +15.