Equatorial Guinea vs Somalia: Mobile cellular subscriptions

Equatorial Guinea
49.54 per 100 people
in 2022
Somalia
53.96 per 100 people
in 2023
Equatorial Guinea rank
201st
Somalia rank
198th

Mobile cellular subscriptions over time

  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Somalia
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How they compare

Somalia currently reports 53.96 per 100 people against 49.54 per 100 people in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 4.42 per 100 people.

That makes Somalia's figure about 1.1 times Equatorial Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Somalia ahead.

Globally, Equatorial Guinea ranks 201st and Somalia ranks 198th 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.