Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)

Dataset IT.CEL.SETS.P2 published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database
Code: IT.CEL.SETS.P2
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Definition published with the series

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people	IT.CEL.SETS.P2	subscriptions per 100 people