Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) - Communications - Infrastructure - World Development Indicators

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Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network. Post-paid and prepaid subscriptions are included.

Rank	Country	Value
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) - Communications - Infrastructure - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	United Arab Emirates	208.65
2	Estonia	188.30
3	Bahrain	185.77
4	Macau	177.24
5	Hong Kong	165.96
6	St. Kitts and Nevis	162.63
7	Barbados	159.09
8	Antigua and Barbuda	157.67
9	Italy	150.99
10	Lithuania	149.57
11	Saudi Arabia	146.07
12	Luxembourg	144.68
13	Maldives	142.82
14	Russia	140.56
15	Portugal	140.36
16	Bulgaria	137.74
17	Dominica	136.62
18	High income: nonOECD	134.03
19	Croatia	132.61
20	Czech Republic	132.19
21	Singapore	131.74
22	Qatar	131.39
23	Serbia	130.86
24	Austria	129.74
25	Finland	128.54
26	Germany	128.51
27	United Kingdom	125.97
28	Netherlands	125.43
29	Denmark	124.91
30	Bermuda	123.05
31	Israel	122.89
32	Greece	122.80
33	Macedonia	122.56
34	Euro area	121.87
35	Hungary	121.78
36	Ireland	121.04
37	Ukraine	120.40
38	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	119.23
39	Sweden	118.14
40	Montenegro	118.10
41	Cyprus	117.89
42	Argentina	116.61
43	Switzerland	116.33
44	Oman	115.58
45	Poland	115.21
46	Panama	115.19
47	Aruba	114.56
48	Romania	113.73
49	El Salvador	113.32
50	Trinidad and Tobago	112.87
51	Belgium	110.40
52	Norway	110.12
53	Europe & Central Asia	109.89
54	Guatemala	109.22
55	Spain	109.05
56	New Zealand	108.22
57	Iceland	107.97
58	Seychelles	107.50
59	Kuwait	106.56
60	High income	106.09
61	Bahamas	106.04
62	Uruguay	105.21
63	High income: OECD	103.44
64	Australia	103.21
65	Malaysia	102.59
66	Slovakia	102.10
67	Slovenia	101.66
68	Jamaica	101.34
69	Armenia	99.99
70	Albania	99.93
71	St. Lucia	99.64
72	Greenland	99.09
73	Latvia	98.58
74	Venezuela	96.95
75	Brunei Darussalam	95.85
76	Paraguay	95.46
77	Liechtenstein	95.43
78	Upper middle income	95.27
79	Kazakhstan	95.12
80	North Korea	93.83
81	South Korea	93.83
82	Malta	93.61
83	France	93.09
84	Algeria	92.72
85	South Africa	92.43
86	Thailand	92.01
87	Colombia	91.90
88	Jordan	89.97
89	Gabon	89.77
90	Turkey	89.05
91	United States	88.96
92	Chile	88.05
93	Japan	86.45
94	Ecuador	85.61
95	Honduras	84.86
96	Bosnia and Herzegovina	84.26
97	Belarus	83.96
98	Tunisia	83.29
99	Mauritius	81.43
100	Vietnam	81.20
101	Suriname	80.76
102	Latin America & Caribbean	80.32
103	New Caledonia	79.64
104	Brazil	78.47
105	San Marino	77.40
106	Botswana	77.34
107	Libya	76.71
108	Andorra	76.60
109	Azerbaijan	75.44
110	Philippines	75.39
111	Peru	72.66
112	Dominican Republic	72.45
113	Morocco	72.19
114	Fiji	71.09
115	Mexico	70.81
116	Gambia	70.24
117	Samoa	69.32
118	Mongolia	66.76
119	Moldova	66.70
120	Canada	66.32
121	Mauritania	65.07
122	Kyrgyzstan	64.31
123	Georgia	63.97
124	Indonesia	61.83
125	Palau	60.20
126	Iran	59.76
127	Middle East & North Africa	58.02
128	Grenada	57.97
129	Iraq	57.08
130	Middle income	56.84
131	Cape Verde	55.68
132	Sri Lanka	54.98
133	Nicaragua	54.84
134	Tajikistan	53.74
135	Pakistan	52.99
136	East Asia & Pacific	52.87
137	Equatorial Guinea	52.49
138	Low & middle income	52.20
139	Ivory Coast	50.74
140	Egypt	50.62
141	Republic of the Congo	49.98
142	Bolivia	49.82
143	Belize	49.68
144	Ghana	49.55
145	Namibia	49.39
146	Tonga	48.73
147	China	48.41
148	Lower middle income	46.99
149	Uzbekistan	46.62
150	Swaziland	45.52
151	Senegal	44.13
152	Kenya	42.06
153	Costa Rica	41.75
154	Nigeria	41.66
155	Benin	39.66
156	Guinea	39.06
157	Angola	37.59
158	Bhutan	36.55
159	Syria	34.28
160	Lebanon	34.03
161	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.30
162	Laos	32.59
163	South Asia	32.58
164	Haiti	32.40
165	Cameroon	32.28
166	Guinea-Bissau	31.75
167	Micronesia	30.79
168	Tanzania	30.62
169	Sao Tome and Principe	30.59
170	India	30.43
171	West Bank and Gaza	29.28
172	Cambodia	29.10
173	Sudan	29
174	Low income	28.50
175	Lesotho	28.35
176	Zambia	28.04
177	Bangladesh	27.90
178	Afghanistan	27.22
179	Mali	27.07
180	Uganda	27.02
181	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	26.01
182	Madagascar	25.30
183	Togo	23.99
184	Turkmenistan	22.51
185	Least developed countries: UN classification	21.42
186	Mozambique	19.68
187	Liberia	19.30
188	Sierra Leone	18.14
189	Burkina Faso	16.76
190	Chad	16.58
191	Yemen	16.14
192	Vanuatu	15.39
193	Comoros	15.29
194	Nepal	14.58
195	Rwanda	13.61
196	Djibouti	13.29
197	Zimbabwe	13.28
198	Niger	12.91
199	Malawi	12
200	Papua New Guinea	9.12
201	Somalia	7.02
202	Burundi	5.95
203	Solomon Islands	5.87
204	Central African Republic	3.55
205	Cuba	2.96
206	Ethiopia	2.42
207	Eritrea	2.20
208	Marshall Islands	1.68
209	Kiribati	1.04
210	Burma	0.74

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Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) - Communications - Infrastructure - World Development Indicators

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