Bangladesh vs Nigeria: Mobile phone subscriptions

Bangladesh
187.58 million
in 2024
Nigeria
164.65 million
in 2024
Bangladesh rank
9th
Nigeria rank
10th

Mobile phone subscriptions over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Nigeria
050.0M100.0M150.0M200.0M198020022024

How they compare

Bangladesh currently reports 187.58 million against 164.65 million in Nigeria, a difference of 22.93 million.

That makes Bangladesh's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Nigeria ahead.

Globally, Bangladesh ranks 9th and Nigeria ranks 10th of 212 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile phone subscriptions
Source
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
212 places, 9,009 data points, 1980–2024
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