Mobile subscriptions by country, 2023, European Union (27 countries)

Subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service, including prepaid accounts active in the last three months, per 100 people. People can hold several subscriptions, so values above 100 are common.

27 places ranked for 2023. Highest: Estonia (150 per 100 people). Lowest: Belgium (103 per 100 people). The median is 126 per 100 people.

Unit: subscriptions per 100 people Source: World Bank Trend, map and download

Members since the United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020. About this group

Highest 10

  1. 1. Estonia 150 per 100 people
  2. 2. Cyprus 148 per 100 people
  3. 3. Luxembourg 144 per 100 people
  4. 4. Malta 141 per 100 people
  5. 5. Sweden 140 per 100 people
  6. 6. Slovakia 138 per 100 people
  7. 7. Lithuania 137 per 100 people
  8. 8. Poland 135 per 100 people
  9. 9. Italy 132 per 100 people
  10. 10. Slovenia 129 per 100 people

Lowest 10

  1. 27. Belgium 103 per 100 people
  2. 26. Hungary 105 per 100 people
  3. 25. Greece 111 per 100 people
  4. 24. Ireland 111 per 100 people
  5. 23. France 117 per 100 people
  6. 22. Croatia 117 per 100 people
  7. 21. Bulgaria 118 per 100 people
  8. 20. Latvia 120 per 100 people
  9. 19. Austria 122 per 100 people
  10. 18. Portugal 123 per 100 people

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

Full ranking

Mobile subscriptions by country, 2023, European Union (27 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Estonia 150 per 100 people 2023
2 Cyprus 148 per 100 people 2023
3 Luxembourg 144 per 100 people 2023
4 Malta 141 per 100 people 2023
5 Sweden 140 per 100 people 2023
6 Slovakia 138 per 100 people 2023
7 Lithuania 137 per 100 people 2023
8 Poland 135 per 100 people 2023
9 Italy 132 per 100 people 2023
10 Slovenia 129 per 100 people 2023
11 Spain 128 per 100 people 2023
12 Finland 127 per 100 people 2023
13 Denmark 127 per 100 people 2023
14 Czechia 126 per 100 people 2023
15 Netherlands 125 per 100 people 2023
16 Germany 125 per 100 people 2023
17 Romania 123 per 100 people 2023
18 Portugal 123 per 100 people 2023
19 Austria 122 per 100 people 2023
20 Latvia 120 per 100 people 2023
21 Bulgaria 118 per 100 people 2023
22 Croatia 117 per 100 people 2023
23 France 117 per 100 people 2023
24 Ireland 111 per 100 people 2023
25 Greece 111 per 100 people 2023
26 Hungary 105 per 100 people 2023
27 Belgium 103 per 100 people 2023

Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.

How this ranking works

Every country is ranked on its value for 2023, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2023 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.

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