France vs Italy: Mobile phone subscriptions

France
77.53 million
in 2023
Italy
78.67 million
in 2024
France rank
26th
Italy rank
25th

Mobile phone subscriptions over time

  • France
  • Italy
020.0M40.0M60.0M80.0M100.0M198020022024

How they compare

Italy currently reports 78.67 million against 77.53 million in France, a difference of 1.15 million.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 44 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Italy ahead.

Globally, France ranks 26th and Italy ranks 25th 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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