American Samoa vs North Korea: Mobile cellular subscriptions

American Samoa
3.96 per 100 people
in 2004
North Korea
24.13 per 100 people
in 2022
American Samoa rank
213th
North Korea rank
211th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • American Samoa
  • North Korea
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How they compare

North Korea currently reports 24.13 per 100 people against 3.96 per 100 people in American Samoa, a difference of 20.17 per 100 people.

That makes North Korea's figure about 6.1 times American Samoa's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 30 shared years of data; in 1960 it was North Korea ahead.

Globally, American Samoa ranks 213th and North Korea ranks 211th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Unit
per 100 people
Source
World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
260 places, 13,015 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.