Malawi vs Niger: Mobile phone subscriptions

Malawi
15.00 million
in 2024
Niger
16.38 million
in 2024
Malawi rank
74th
Niger rank
72nd

Mobile phone subscriptions over time

  • Malawi
  • Niger
05.0M10.0M15.0M198020022024

How they compare

Niger currently reports 16.38 million against 15.00 million in Malawi, a difference of 1.38 million.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

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

Globally, Malawi ranks 74th and Niger ranks 72nd 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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